From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,URIBL_SBL,URIBL_SBL_A shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B121F9E0 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726974AbgD2VmI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:42:08 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:58367 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726511AbgD2VmH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:42:07 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6204CA756; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:42:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=rG2RAmGtVzAj86tk2/iiDkTZbiQ=; b=CBb7Dr b2DUOACnTK2VP2ct0WB52bjnJVJbOoLc1iTX3lx501vH9DYNvIqXKZRW4Nael/oa i0UDwnzvVE8wumV6KlRcglTUcrhkHKg/J3eQP0WZyyrDMZGbW8iJc2Jqad4Quq7o bFaL5BvW4MzzOHSzUPy0IYtzQBt0kfsmmqWYU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=eu9Rui1P8bbOPouMxPvZlAKDMSlc7+Rx J+IvL7Ca0rCC9Y5/IoCI3seDjFkDrrgUckEv/tXvHdrejZuE4miAXmQ8L7azhI5Z JUdXSJW8ZnGBcNszBMFDA7nnSWqRXa2R32v/d0dc/nBHWo6uH5ELOmWgU5V6jzxF k4O4MivbbTI= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF64CA755; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:42:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0067CCA753; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:42:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Johannes Sixt Cc: Taylor Blau , Denton Liu , Git Mailing List Subject: Re* [PATCH 0/4] t: replace incorrect test_must_fail usage (part 5) References: <20200429195035.GB3920@syl.local> <90edb162-e035-bdb7-a2d2-ffc6bd075977@kdbg.org> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:42:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: <90edb162-e035-bdb7-a2d2-ffc6bd075977@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2020 23:30:19 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 43FB0E70-8A62-11EA-81E4-B0405B776F7B-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Johannes Sixt writes: > Am 29.04.20 um 21:50 schrieb Taylor Blau: >> This comment has nothing to do with your series, but I am curious if you >> are planning on touching 'test_might_fail' at all. These can be useful >> for non-Git commands, too, such as 'test_might_fail umask 022' on >> systems that may or may not do something sensible with umask. > > When it's not a git command that might fail, the idiom is > > ... && > { umask 022 || :; } && > ... > > -- Hannes I hoped to find this documented in t/README, but ended up writing this. Overkill? I dunno. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] t/README: document when not to use test_might_fail Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- t/README | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/README b/t/README index 13747f1344..870950c7d1 100644 --- a/t/README +++ b/t/README @@ -875,7 +875,9 @@ library for your script to use. - test_might_fail [] Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this - instead of " || :" to catch failures due to segv. + instead of " || :" to catch failures due to segv, + but do use "{ || :; }" to ignore a failure from + a command that is not git. Accepts the same options as test_must_fail.