Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] t5516: introduce 'push ref expression with non-existent oid src'

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 11:24:37PM -0700, Denton Liu wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
index 4e9c27b0f2..c2fcfeca92 100755
--- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh

@@ -509,6 +509,13 @@ test_expect_success 'push ref expression with non-existent, incomplete dest' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_failure 'push ref expression with non-existent oid src' '
+
+	mk_test testrepo &&
+	test_must_fail git push testrepo $(test_oid 001):branch
+
+'
+
 for head in HEAD @
 do

Nit: I don't think it's necessary to implement the test in a separate
commit. Folks who want to check that your fix really does something can
trivially revert the code changes while retaining the test. I used to do
the same in the past, but received the same feedback.

A very good suggestion.

Also, I think we can drop the empty surrounding lines in the test body.
Other tests in this file do the same, but that is not a good reason to
not do better for newly added tests.

Yup.  The style was from a decade ago when the test suite was being
developed, and is very out of style these days.

Thanks.