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[PATCH] t7800: don't rely on reuse_worktree_file()

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 16, 2020, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20200116181940.GA2945961@coredump.intra.peff.net>

A test in t7800 tries to make sure that when git-difftool runs an external tool that fails, it stops looking at files. Our fake failing tool prints the file name it was asked to diff before exiting non-zero, and then we confirm the output contains only that file.

However, this subtly relies on our internal reuse_worktree_file(). Because we're diffing between branches, the command run by difftool might see:

  - the git-stored filename (e.g., "file"), if we decided that the
    working tree contents were up-to-date with the object in the index
    and HEAD, and we could reuse them
  - a temporary filename (e.g. "/tmp/abc123_file") if we had to dump the
    contents from the object database

If the latter case happens, then the test fails, because it's expecting the string "file". I discovered this when debugging something unrelated with reuse_worktree_file(). I _thought_ it should be able to be triggered by a racy-git situation, but running:

  ./t7800-difftool.sh --stress --run=2,13

never seems to fail. However, by my reading of reuse_worktree_file(), this would probably always fail under Cygwin, because it sets NO_FAST_WORKING_DIRECTORY. At any rate, since reuse_worktree_file() is meant to be an optimization that may or may not trigger, our test should be robust either way.

Instead of checking the filename, let's just make sure we got a single line of output (which would not be true if we continued after the first failure).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 t/t7800-difftool.sh | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t7800-difftool.sh b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
index 6bac9ed180..29b92907e2 100755
--- a/t/t7800-difftool.sh
+++ b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
@@ -125,15 +125,14 @@ test_expect_success 'difftool stops on error with --trust-exit-code' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -f for-diff .git/fail-right-file" &&
 	test_when_finished "git reset -- for-diff" &&
 	write_script .git/fail-right-file <<-\EOF &&
-	echo "$2"
+	echo failed
 	exit 1
 	EOF
 	>for-diff &&
 	git add for-diff &&
-	echo file >expect &&
 	test_must_fail git difftool -y --trust-exit-code \
 		--extcmd .git/fail-right-file branch >actual &&
-	test_cmp expect actual
+	test_line_count = 1 actual
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'difftool honors exit status if command not found' '
-- 
2.25.0.318.gee4019ba55
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