Re: [PATCH 1/2] git notes show: test empty notes

Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 06.02.2009 16:36:

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:

quoted

Add a test for the handling of empty notes by "git notes show".
---
 t/t3301-notes.sh |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t3301-notes.sh b/t/t3301-notes.sh
index 9393a25..4900dca 100755
--- a/t/t3301-notes.sh
+++ b/t/t3301-notes.sh

@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ test_expect_success 'need valid notes ref' '
 	! MSG=2 GIT_NOTES_REF='/' git notes show
 '
 
+# 1 indicates caught gracefully by die, 128 means git-show barfed
+test_expect_failure 'handle empty notes gracefully' '
+	git notes show || test 1 = $?
+'

That test would succeed if the exit status is 0.

Yes. If "git notes show" returns 0 then even better. It does neither
before nor after the patch. Or should we always expect 1 and test for
that? I thought about grepping the output for "fatal" (which appears
now) but that seemed ugly.

Michael