t5329: notice a failure within a loop

We try to write "|| return 1" (or "|| exit 1" in a subshell) at the
end of a sequence of &&-chained command in a loop of our tests, so
that a failure of any step during the earlier iteration of the loop
can properly be caught.

There is one loop in this test script that is used to compute the
expected result, that will be later compared with an actual output
produced by the "test-tool pack-mtimes" command.  This particular
loop, however, is placed on the upstream side of a pipe, whose
non-zero exit code does not get noticed.

Emit a line that will never be produced by the "test-tool pack-mtimes"
to cause the later comparison to fail.  As we use test_cmp to compare
this "expected output" file with the "actual output", the "error
message" we are emitting into the expected output stream will stand
out and shown to the tester.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/t/t5329-pack-objects-cruft.sh b/t/t5329-pack-objects-cruft.sh
index 6049e2c1d7..303f7a5d84 100755
--- a/t/t5329-pack-objects-cruft.sh
+++ b/t/t5329-pack-objects-cruft.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ basic_cruft_pack_tests () {
 				while read oid
 				do
 					path="$objdir/$(test_oid_to_path "$oid")" &&
-					printf "%s %d\n" "$oid" "$(test-tool chmtime --get "$path")" || exit 1
+					printf "%s %d\n" "$oid" "$(test-tool chmtime --get "$path")" ||
+					echo "object list generation failed for $oid"
 				done |
 				sort -k1
 			) >expect &&