From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:08:58 GMT
Subject: &&-chaining tester
Message-ID: <20111207100858.GB13374@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nNtvrLHxQv17jfrFQ=BcwLfgh7eE9X-nDCCYY0nsOskg@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Missing the chaining '&&' seems to be quite a common
> error: I vaguely remember seeing a patch to detect this sometime ago.
> Jonathan?

I guess you mean [1].

If you want to deploy it, you have three choices:

 - maintain a list of tests known to have broken &&-chaining, and
   set GIT_SKIP_TESTS to avoid them

 - fix all cases of broken &&-chaining.  For extra bonus points,
   send out those patches, respond to reviews, and gently usher
   them into Junio's tree

 - modify the &&-chaining tester to output a list of tests encountered
   with broken &&-chaining instead of halting on the first one.

Some day, I'd like to (help) carry out option (b), but please don't
hold your breath.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/157903/focus=158265