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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Travis: also test on 32-bit Linux
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:53:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0MDVMVOG=bbcEeRbKX+aTNKfLd9yZn5zW7T9KxeRsebQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703021519330.3767@virtualbox>

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> >> +set -e
>> >
>> > Is this really necessary? I really like to avoid `set -e`, in
>> > particular when we do pretty much everything in && chains anyway.
>>
>> Agreed, not really necessary here as we just invoke one command.  Out of
>> curiosity: Why do you try to avoid it? I set it by default in all my
>> scripts.
>
> I try to avoid it because it encourages a style that omits helpful error
> messages.

Yeah, we prefer to define and use a die() function like this:

die () {
    printf >&2 '%s\n' "$*"
    exit 1
}

do_something || die "meaningful error message"

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-02 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-28 19:17 [PATCH] Travis: also test on 32-bit Linux Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-28 20:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-02  5:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-02 10:51 ` [PATCH v1] " Lars Schneider
2017-03-02 11:24   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-02 11:38     ` Lars Schneider
2017-03-02 14:22       ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-02 15:53         ` Christian Couder [this message]
2017-03-02 18:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-03  2:17         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-03 18:43           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-04  0:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-04  4:11               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-04 17:23                 ` Lars Schneider
2017-03-04 18:08                   ` Vegard Nossum
2017-03-04 19:49                     ` Vegard Nossum
2017-03-04 20:08                       ` Vegard Nossum
2017-03-05 11:36                         ` Jeff King
2017-03-05 11:44                           ` [PATCH] line-log: use COPY_ARRAY to fix mis-sized memcpy Jeff King
2017-03-05 12:20                             ` Vegard Nossum
2017-03-05 11:46                           ` [PATCH v1] Travis: also test on 32-bit Linux Jeff King
2017-03-10  0:14                           ` René Scharfe
2017-03-10  8:18                             ` Jeff King
2017-03-10 16:20                               ` René Scharfe
2017-03-10 17:57                                 ` Jeff King
2017-03-10 18:31                                   ` René Scharfe
2017-03-10 20:13                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-10 20:18                                   ` Jeff King
2017-03-10 22:04                                   ` René Scharfe
2017-03-10 23:33                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-11 14:17                                       ` René Scharfe
2017-03-10  0:14                           ` René Scharfe
2017-03-10  7:45                             ` Jeff King
2017-03-02 15:17     ` Ramsay Jones
2017-03-05 17:38       ` Lars Schneider
2017-03-05 22:16         ` Ramsay Jones

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