Re: [PATCH 2/2] t3404: add a test for the --gpg-sign option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 1, 2016, 16:06 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpoqxz6kp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1606301019040.12947@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> that has a substring '-S"' in it to ensure that the codepath to
>> parse --gpg-sign= on the command line of "rebase", and to the
>> message we see here are working correctly, without actually checking
>> if GPG is invoked at all, or if it is invoked the key given by the
>> option is correctly passed to the invocation?
>
> Exactly. I want to test --gpg-sign even when there is no gpg executable
> available.

The other side of that coine is that even when GPG is available, we do not see if it is invoked correctly at all. That was what I found disturbing.