Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] test: allow prerequisite to be evaluated lazily

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2012, 17:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfw8d15yh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120727155000.GB11957@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> And of course with non-broken probes, "-v" would also help to see exactly
>> when the probe is run, using which commands, and what output they
>> produced. E.g., for SYMLINKS, we should probably drop the stderr
>> redirection from the probe so we can see how "ln" complains.
>> 
>> It might also be worth doing a "say >&3" at the end of the check, too,
>> to tell "-v" users the outcome.
>
> Here is an updated version of my suggestion that does both of those
> things.  I think it should just be squashed into your patch.

Thanks. The changes look good.