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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-06-04 20:50:12 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-06-05 00:36:54 +0400 |
| commit | f445500e4dd79ad0c4f6cf1c4949f01f155142f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 792240be533e8032a274c0ae4b22e3a1173148b5 /t/README | |
| parent | 4b8f772ce4df667583243e434ca0548d5b84b3a6 (diff) | |
t/README: test_must_fail is for testing Git
When a test wants to make sure there is no <string> in an output
file, we should just say "! grep string output".
"test_must_fail" is there only to test Git command and catch unusual
deaths we know about (e.g. segv) as an error, not as an expected
failure. "test_must_fail grep string output" is unnecessary, as
we are not making sure the system binaries do not dump core or
anything like that.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -324,6 +324,9 @@ Don't: use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault). + On the other hand, don't use test_must_fail for running regular + platform commands; just use '! cmd'. + - use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that |