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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: [PATCH] test_must_be_empty: make sure the file exists, not just empty
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:27:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh8q2p1ha.fsf_-_@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpo4qp290.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:10:51 -0800")

The helper function test_must_be_empty is meant to make sure the
given file is empty, but its implementation is:

	if test -s "$1"
	then
		... not empty, we detected a failure ...
	fi

Surely, the file having non-zero size is a sign that the condition
"the file must be empty" is violated, but it misses the case where
the file does not even exist.  It is an accident waiting to happen
with a buggy test like this:

	git frotz 2>error-message &&
	test_must_be_empty errro-message

that won't get caught until you deliberately break 'git frotz' and
notice why the test does not fail.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 t/test-lib-functions.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 37eb34044a..6cfbee60e4 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -772,7 +772,11 @@ verbose () {
 # otherwise.
 
 test_must_be_empty () {
-	if test -s "$1"
+	if ! test -f "$1"
+	then
+		echo "'$1' is missing"
+		return 1
+	elif test -s "$1"
 	then
 		echo "'$1' is not empty, it contains:"
 		cat "$1"
-- 
2.16.2-325-g2fc74f41c5


  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-27 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-23 23:39 [PATCH 00/11] Make the test suite pass with '-x' and /bin/sh SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 01/11] t: prevent '-x' tracing from interfering with test helpers' stderr SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-24 12:19   ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-25 13:40   ` [PATCH v1.1] " SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 02/11] t: add means to disable '-x' tracing for individual test scripts SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 03/11] t1507-rev-parse-upstream: don't check the stderr of a shell function SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 04/11] t3030-merge-recursive: don't check the stderr of a subshell SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-24  8:04   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-02-27 21:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 21:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 21:27       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-02-27 21:42         ` [PATCH] test_must_be_empty: make sure the file exists, not just empty Stefan Beller
2018-02-27 22:08         ` Jeff King
2018-02-27 21:28       ` [PATCH 04/11] t3030-merge-recursive: don't check the stderr of a subshell SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-27 21:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-28  0:44     ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 05/11] t5500-fetch-pack: " SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 06/11] t5526: use $TRASH_DIRECTORY to specify the path of GIT_TRACE log file SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 07/11] t5570-git-daemon: don't check the stderr of a subshell SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 08/11] t9903-bash-prompt: don't check the stderr of __git_ps1() SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 09/11] t1510-repo-setup: mark as untraceable with '-x' SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 10/11] t/README: add a note about don't saving stderr of compound commands SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-23 23:39 ` [PATCH 11/11] travis-ci: run tests with '-x' tracing SZEDER Gábor
2018-03-02 15:32 ` [PATCH 00/11] Make the test suite pass with '-x' and /bin/sh SZEDER Gábor
2018-03-03  7:12 ` Jeff King
2018-03-05 21:18   ` SZEDER Gábor

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