Re: [RFC PATCHv2 09/16] t4026 (color): add missing &&
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:55:08PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:22, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > FIXME: Is it intended that this git config --unset fail? I had to add a
> > > test_might_fail as well.
> >
> > Presumably this is to work around the user having diff.color in his
> > config or something? Should we be leaking like that?
>
> No, it was to clean up from previous tests, which set diff.color.new, to
> make sure we had a clean environment. So it should have been might_fail
> (but it predated might_fail, which is why it wasn't).
Shouldn't modern test script use 'test_when_finished <script>' for
cleanup instead?
> But look at 8b124135, which came later. It changed the color() and
> invalid_color() helpers to no longer use diff.color.new, so that cleanup
> is now obsolete. So that line can simply be removed now.
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