From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 02:21:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5404: relax overzealous test
Message-ID: <xmqq60516rwq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180406195331.GC11450@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 09:31:22PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> In 0b294c0abf0 (make deleting a missing ref more quiet, 2008-07-08), we
>> added a test to verify that deleting an already-deleted ref does not
>> show an error.
>
> Amazing that it took this long to come up.
> ...
>> This patch chooses instead to look for the prefix "error:" at the
>> beginning of the line, so that there can be no ambiguity that any catch
>> was indeed a message generated by Git's `error_builtin()` function.
>
> Yep, this seems obviously correct.

Hits in

    $ git grep 'grep ["'\'']*error' t

shows that many checks for errors that are not anchored, but I do
not think any of them are looking for the string in a pathname other
than this instance, so it would be OK.

Thanks, both.  Will apply.