Brandon Williams [off-list ref] writes:
Check for configuration parsing errors in '.gitmodules' in t7411, which
is explicitly testing the submodule-config subsystem, instead of in
t7400. Also explicitly use the test helper instead of relying on the
gitmodules file from being read in status.
Makes sense.
...
- test_must_fail git status
-'
-...
+test_expect_success 'configuration parsing with error' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+ test_create_repo repo &&
+ cat >repo/.gitmodules <<-\EOF &&
+ [submodule "s"]
+ path
+ ignore
+ EOF
+ (
+ cd repo &&
+ test_must_fail test-submodule-config "" s 2>actual &&
+ test_i18ngrep "bad config" actual
+ )
+'
+
cat >super/expect <<EOF
Submodule name: 'a' for path 'a'
Submodule name: 'a' for path 'b'