From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] 'test_i18ngrep'-related fixes and improvements
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:51:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180126185136.GH27618@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180126123708.21722-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:36:58PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> When 'test_i18ngrep' can't find the expected pattern, it exits
> completely silently; when its negated form does find the pattern that
> shouldn't be there, it prints the matching line(s) but otherwise exits
> without any error message. This leaves the developer puzzled about
> what could have gone wrong. Well, at least it left me puzzled...
>
> Initially all I wanted to do was to make 'test_i18ngrep' more
> informative on failure, but then skeletons started to fall out of the
> closet^Wour test suite, and BAM! before I knew it I had 10 patches:
I know the feeling. :)
The series overall looks good to me. I left some comments on the
approach in the final few patches, but I could live with it as-is, or
with the approach Junio suggested.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-26 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-26 12:36 [PATCH 00/10] 'test_i18ngrep'-related fixes and improvements SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 12:36 ` [PATCH 01/10] t5541: add 'test_i18ngrep's missing filename parameter SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:23 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 18:23 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] t5812: " SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:27 ` Jeff King
2018-02-07 13:53 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-07 14:38 ` Jeff King
2018-01-30 9:50 ` Simon Ruderich
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 03/10] t6022: don't run 'git merge' upstream of a pipe SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] t4001: don't run 'git status' " SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 05/10] t5510: consolidate 'grep' and 'test_i18ngrep' patterns SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-26 19:20 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 06/10] t5536: let 'test_i18ngrep' read the file without redirection SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 07/10] t: move 'test_i18ncmp' and 'test_i18ngrep' to 'test-lib-functions.sh' SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-26 18:32 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 19:08 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 08/10] t: forbid piping into 'test_i18ngrep' SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-26 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-26 18:43 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 18:51 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 19:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-26 18:41 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 09/10] t: make sure that 'test_i18ngrep' got enough parameters SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:47 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 22:07 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-01-26 12:37 ` [PATCH 10/10] t: make 'test_i18ngrep' more informative on failure SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 18:50 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 19:23 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 19:25 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 20:26 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-26 20:32 ` Jeff King
2018-01-26 18:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] 'test_i18ngrep'-related fixes and improvements SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] t5541: add 'test_i18ngrep's missing filename parameter SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] t5812: " SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] t6022: don't run 'git merge' upstream of a pipe SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] t4001: don't run 'git status' " SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] t5510: consolidate 'grep' and 'test_i18ngrep' patterns SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] t5536: let 'test_i18ngrep' read the file without redirection SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] t: move 'test_i18ncmp' and 'test_i18ngrep' to 'test-lib-functions.sh' SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] t: validate 'test_i18ngrep's parameters SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 16:34 ` Jeff King
2018-02-08 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] t: make 'test_i18ngrep' more informative on failure SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-08 16:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] 'test_i18ngrep'-related fixes and improvements Jeff King
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