Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] ident: add user.useConfigOnly boolean for when ident shouldn't be guessed

> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:42:27AM +0200, Dan Aloni wrote:
>> +prepare () {
>> +     # Have a non-empty repository
>> +     rm -fr .git
>> +     git init
>> +     echo "Initial" >foo &&
>> +     git add foo &&
>> +     git commit -m foo &&
>> +
>> +     # Setup a likely user.useConfigOnly use case
>> +     sane_unset GIT_AUTHOR_NAME &&
>> +     sane_unset GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL &&
>> +     test_unconfig --global user.name &&
>> +     test_unconfig --global user.email &&
>> +     test_config user.name "test" &&
>> +     test_unconfig user.email &&
>> +     test_config_global user.useConfigOnly true
>> +}
>
> The flow of this test script is a bit different than what we usually
> write. Typically we have some early test_expect_success blocks do setup
> for the whole script, and then progress through a sequence (and we rely
> on the test harness to do things like "git init").
>
> IOW, most of your "prepare" would go in the first block, and then the
> rest of the tests rely on it.
>
> The only thing I really see that needs to be repeated for each test is
> setting up the "about to commit" scenario. But you can simply use
> "commit --allow-empty" so that the tests work no matter what state the
> previous test left us in. We care about the ident, not what gets
> committed.