Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite
of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision. Most tests
run a series of commands that leads to the single command that
needs to be tested, like this:
test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
what is to be tested
'
And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the
point of writing tests. Your setup$N that are supposed to
succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are
trying to test. The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to
check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which
is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands.
This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to
use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is
tested, like this:
test_expect_success 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
! this command should fail
'
test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that
that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it
currently does not pass. So if git-foo command should create a
file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can
write a test like this:
test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' '
rm -f bar &&
git foo &&
test -f bar
'
This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead
of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the
outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is no leading context, the patch must match at the
beginning of preimage; otherwise there is a "patch adds these
lines while the other lines were added to the original file"
conflict.
This is the opposite of match_end fix earlier in this series.
Unlike matching at the end case, we can additionally check the
preimage line number recorded in the patch, so the change is not
symmetrical with the earlier one.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-apply adding an ending line doesn't seem to fail if the ending line is
already present in the patched file.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
