From: Eric Sunshine Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:39:27 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2021, #03; Tue, 13) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 12:30 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eric Sunshine writes: > > I think this series is ready and gave my Reviewed-by: here[1]. One of > > the new tests contains an unnecessary but harmless `test -f`[2], but > > it's such a minor nit that I doubt it's worth demanding a re-roll. > > I think having "test -f" is the right thing to do, so [2] is > probably OK as-is. test_cmp may want to complain about a possible > bug in the test when given a missing file. [...] We tried relatively recently to have test_cmp() complain about a missing file[1], but both Ævar[2] and Peff[3] ran into problems in which tests (presumably) legitimately called test_cmp() on missing files, so the suggestion was made to revert the check[4], which is indeed what happened[5]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200809174209.15466-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200921104000.2304-15-avarab@gmail.com/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201016001704.GA2937048@coredump.intra.peff.net/ [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cSU=1GcQuqZab+0Vff_A-JmD59wEc3RMr3wDojpgRYUuw@mail.gmail.com/ [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqv9f9ao0v.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/