Re: [PATCH] grep: Don't pass a TODO test if REG_STARTEND is supported

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:40, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

+if git grep ile a
+then
+     test_expect_success 'git grep ile a' 'git grep ile a'
+else
+     test_expect_failure 'git grep ile a' 'git grep ile a'
+fi

So if command "X" is known to succeed, we run it inside expect_success
and if not we run it inside expect_failure?

What kind of idiocy is that, I have to wonder...

Well, the point is to normalize the test suite so that we never have
passing TODO tests if everything's OK.