From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:31:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/README: unify documentation of test function args
Message-ID: <7vzknei0vn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DB5BDBE.308@debugon.org>

Mathias Lafeldt <misfire@debugon.org> writes:

> Ah, okay. Is this true for test_expect_code too? It also has a git command
> in the example, but it says <command>, not <git-command>:
>
>  - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command>

I think that one is Ok as there is no git specific hacks in the semantics.
It is a straight "Run this command, and make sure you get this exit code".

The "must-fail" is really a special case in that we just do not expect any
failure, but expect a controlled failure.  Currently we only catch segv,
but we should anticipate that we will reject other types of uncontrolled
failures in the future, and keeping the function "git-only" makes it
easier to manage.