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Re: [PATCH] commit --amend: test specifies authorship but forgets to check

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2014, 19:44 UTC
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Fabian Ruch <bafain@gmail.com> writes:
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> The test case "--amend option copies authorship" specifies that the
> git-commit option `--amend` uses the authorship of the replaced
> commit for the new commit. Add the omitted check that this property
> actually holds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Ruch <bafain@gmail.com>
> ---
> Without the check, the test case succeeds even with nonsense in the
> `expected` file. An `--amend` implementation which simply uses the
> committer name and date as if it was not amending would have been
> deemed correct. This is not the case, the implementation still passes
> the test suite after the correction.
>
> Quickly skimming over the rest of the file, I couldn't find the same
> thing twice.
>
>  t/t7509-commit.sh | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/t7509-commit.sh b/t/t7509-commit.sh
> index b61fd3c..9ac7940 100755
> --- a/t/t7509-commit.sh
> +++ b/t/t7509-commit.sh
> @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ test_expect_success '--amend option copies authorship' '
>  	git commit -a --amend -m "amend test" &&
>  	author_header Initial >expect &&
>  	author_header HEAD >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
>  
>  	echo "amend test" >expect &&
>  	message_body HEAD >actual &&
Makes sense; thanks.
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  1. commit --amend: test specifies authorship but forgets to checkFabian Ruch, Jul 30, 2014
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