Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "remote-curl: fall back to basic auth if Negotiate fails"

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:58:50AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:

> > (Note that this isn't a pure revert; the previous commit added a test
> > showing the regression, so we can now flip it to expect_success).
> 
> Keeping the test is excellent, because it gives us a way to confirm
> that a second attempt at a fix is at least as good as the first.
> 
> The only thing that could improve this situation is to add a test
> that checks the bug that the previous version introduced, so that
> the next round doesn't repeat the mistake. That can be deferred
> because it is more important that we get this fix in time for the
> next release candidate.

Re-reading what I wrote, I think "the previous commit" may be ambiguous.
The original commit which introduced the bug (and which we're reverting
here) didn't include a test at all. In patch 1/2 of this series (what
I'm calling "the previous commit"), I provided a test which shows the
regression. And now this revert shows that we fixed it (by flipping from
expect_failure to expect_success).

So I think I've already done what you're asking (if I understand it
correctly).

It probably would be a little easier to follow by reverting first, and
then adding in the expect_success test on top to future-proof us. But by
doing it in the other order, it was easy to see the test demonstrate the
behavior before and after the revert.

-Peff