Re: [Problem] test_must_fail makes possibly questionable assumptions about exit_code.

> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 09:28:31AM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
>
>> > It's not clear to me though if we just want to tweak the programs run in the
>> > test scripts in order to get test_must_fail to stop complaining, or if we
>> > consider the unusual exit codes from our perl-based Git programs to be an
>> > error that should be fixed for real use, too.
>>
>> I'm living unusual exit code IRL all the time. So "fixed for real", is
>> what I'm looking for. So if we were to do that, where is the best
>> place to insert a fix - my original question - that would be permanent
>> in the main git test code. Or perhaps this needs to be in the main
>> code itself.
>
> If it's fixed in the real world, then it needs to be in the main code
> itself. It looks like git-svn already does this to some degree itself
> (most of the work happens in an eval, and it calls the "fatal" function
> if that throws an exception via 'die').
>
> So I think git-send-email.perl (and maybe others) needs to learn the
> same trick (by pushing the main bits of the script into an eval). Or it
> needs to include the SIG{__DIE__} trickery at the beginning of the
> script.
>
> I think the SIG{__DIE__} stuff could go into Git/PredictableDie.pm or
> something, and then any scripts that need it could just "use
> Git::PredictableDie".
>
> Does that make sense?