Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Support triangular workflows

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Sometimes it's annoyingly verbose to break down a compound function. But
I think in this case, you can make your tests more robust by just
checking the affirmative that the ref is still where we expect it to be,
like:

  check_push_result up_repo $the_first_commit heads/master

Sorry if that was a bit long-winded. I think that practically speaking,
it is not a likely source of problems in this case. But it's an
anti-pattern in our tests that I think is worth mentioning.

Thanks.  That is one of the reasons why we do not want to see too
many custom test helper functions.