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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tests: do not negate test_path_exists
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 22:53:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRwPUJZdov7eAZbZ1qji9qj_Oh5RQ8bpLWsXW9J+QnvPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230516022646.648123-2-gitster@pobox.com>

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 10:37 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> As a way to assert the path 'foo' is missing, "! test_path_exists foo" a
> poor way to do so, as the helper is designed to complain when 'foo' is
> missing, but the intention of the author who used negated form was to
> make sure it does not exist.  This does not help debugging the tests.

s/a poor/is &/

> Use test_path_is_missing instead, which is a more appropriate helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-16  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-16  2:26 [PATCH 0/3] fix use of "! test_path_is_foo" in tests Junio C Hamano
2023-05-16  2:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests: do not negate test_path_exists Junio C Hamano
2023-05-16  2:53   ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2023-05-16 16:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-16  2:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] t2021: do not negate test_path_is_dir Junio C Hamano
2023-05-16  2:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] test: do not negate test_path_is_* to assert absense Junio C Hamano

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