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[PATCH] t3420-rebase-autostash: don't try to grep non-existing files

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2021, 17:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20211010172809.1472914-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

Several tests in 't3420-rebase-autostash.sh' start various rebase processes that are expected to fail because of merge conflicts. The tests [1] checking that 'git rebase --quit' and autostash work together as expected after such a failure then run '! grep ...' to ensure that the dirty contents of the file is gone. However, due to the test repo's history and the choice of upstream branch that file shouldn't exist in the conflicted state at all, and thus it shouldn't exist after the subsequent 'git rebase --quit' either. Consequently, this 'grep' doesn't fail as expected, i.e. because it can't find the dirty content, but instead it fails, because it can't open the file.

Thighten this check by using 'test_path_is_missing' instead, thereby avoiding unexpected errors from 'grep' as well.

Previously 2745817028 (t3420-rebase-autostash: don't try to grep non-existing files, 2018-08-22) fixed a couple of similar issues; this one was added later in 9b2df3e8d0 (rebase: save autostash entry into stash reflog on --quit, 2020-04-28).

[1] This patch modifies only a single test, but that test is run
    several times with different strategies ('--apply', '--merge', and
    '--interactive'), hence the plural "tests".
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---
 t/t3420-rebase-autostash.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/t3420-rebase-autostash.sh b/t/t3420-rebase-autostash.sh
index 43fcb68f27..bbe82d2c0c 100755
--- a/t/t3420-rebase-autostash.sh
+++ b/t/t3420-rebase-autostash.sh
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ testrebase () {
 		git rebase --quit &&
 		test_when_finished git stash drop &&
 		test_path_is_missing $dotest/autostash &&
-		! grep dirty file3 &&
+		test_path_is_missing file3 &&
 		git stash show -p >actual &&
 		test_cmp expect actual &&
 		git reset --hard &&
-- 
2.33.0.1279.g1a260bf8c2
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