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Re: [PATCH v2] tests: add initial bash completion tests

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Apr 13, 2012, 11:33 UTC
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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
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> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:34:46PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >> +     run_completion "git f" &&
>> >> +     ! grep -q -v "^f" out
>> >
>> > grep is not a git command, so I'm not sure, but shouldn't these use
>> > 'test_must_fail grep' instead of '! grep'?
>> 
>> I'm not sure. Junio has already queued this, maybe you should send a
>> patch on top of that.
>
> It seems that both are used in the test suite, but '! grep' is more
> common, so perhaps it's good as it is.
>
> $ git grep '! grep' -- t |wc -l
> 136
> $ git grep 'test_must_fail grep' -- t |wc -l
> 17

test_must_fail catches a segfault or other signal exit as "bad", unlike ! which would accept this.

Since we trust the platform tools to work (on the grounds that you have bigger problems if they don't), ! grep is fine.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. tests: add initial bash completion testsFelipe Contreras, Apr 11, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2012
  3. Felipe ContrerasApr 12, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2012
  5. Felipe ContrerasApr 12, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2012
  8. SZEDER GáborApr 13, 2012
  9. SZEDER GáborApr 13, 2012
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 13, 2012
  11. SZEDER GáborApr 13, 2012
  12. Felipe ContrerasApr 13, 2012
  13. Felipe ContrerasApr 13, 2012
  14. SZEDER GáborApr 13, 2012
  15. Thomas RastApr 13, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2012
  17. Felipe ContrerasApr 14, 2012
  18. SZEDER GáborApr 17, 2012
  19. Felipe ContrerasApr 17, 2012
  20. SZEDER GáborApr 17, 2012
  21. tests: add tests for the __gitcomp() completion helper functionSZEDER Gábor, Apr 17, 2012

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