From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:38:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] t7004, t7030: fix here-doc syntax errors
Message-ID: <xmqqlgrxgcn0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170322222230.yqqv6x4gokvb4jbz@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I worked up the patch to do that (see below), but I got stumped trying
> to write the commit message. Perhaps that is what the test intended, but
> I don't think tag's --format understands "%G" codes at all.
> So you cannot tell from the output if a tag was valid or not; you have to check
> the exit code separately.

Thanks for digging; that was an unexpected show-stopper to me X-<.

> you cannot tell at all which ones are bogus. Whereas with the current
> behavior, the bogus ones are quietly omitted. Which can also be
> confusing, but I'd think would generally err on the side of caution.

OK.