Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] test-lib: allow negation of prerequisites
- From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 15, 2012, 07:46 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20121115074658.GA8429@elie.Belkin>
- In-Reply-To
- <20121115003325.GA17819@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> +test_expect_success !LAZY_TRUE 'missing lazy prereqs skip tests' '
I have a visceral nervousness when reading this code, from too much unpleasant experience of bash's csh-style !history expansion. Luckily bash does not treat ! specially in the '-o sh' mode used by tests.
Does this feature work when running a test explicitly using "bash <name of test>"? That's something I do from time to time to figure out whether a weird behavior is shell-specific.
If it works everywhere, this patch would help me conquer my fear of exclamation points in git's tests, which would be a comfort to me and a very good thing.