Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.33.0-rc2 (Build/Test Report)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 02:31:34PM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:

> >33 - reject long lines #
> >#               z8=zzzzzzzz &&
> >#               z64=$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8 &&
> >#               z512=$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64 &&
> >#               clean_fake_sendmail &&
> >#               cp $patches longline.patch &&
> >#               cat >>longline.patch <<-EOF &&
> >#               $z512$z512
> >#               not a long line
> >#               $z512$z512
> >#               EOF
> >#               test_must_fail git send-email \
> >#                       --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
> >#                       --to=nobody@example.com \
> >#                       --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
> >#                       --transfer-encoding=8bit \
> >#                       $patches longline.patch \
> >#                       2>actual &&
> >#               cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> >#               fatal: longline.patch:35 is longer than 998 characters
> >#               warning: no patches were sent
> >#               EOF
> >#               test_cmp expect actual
> >#
> >/
> 
> I should point out that all 6 failures in t9001 have the same characteristic - signal 34.

Oh. Then the notion from my other mail of "if it's die(), then other
tests would presumably see similar failures" might be true. ;)

-Peff