Re: [PATCH 3/6] t6423: document two bugs with rename-to-self testcases
From: Elijah Newren <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-05 18:33:51
On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 12:15:15PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:quoted
On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 03:23:08PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:quoted
diff --git a/t/t6423-merge-rename-directories.sh b/t/t6423-merge-rename-directories.sh index f48ed6d03534..69de7a3b84af 100755 --- a/t/t6423-merge-rename-directories.sh +++ b/t/t6423-merge-rename-directories.shI found it to be a bit weird that we have this conditional here. Shouldn't we expect one particular outcome? Even if multiple outcomes would be techincally correct I think we should expect one particular result, but we may add a comment to explain that different output would be fine, too.Isn't that exactly what I did, with the note I'll copy below?Not quite -- you do have a comment explaining why you relax the test. But I think it would be preferable to _not_ relax the test but still have a comment that says that the outcome isn't quite clear cut. This would alert us if the outcome ever changed and thus make it way more of a concious change if we had to adapt the test, but it would still leave a future reader in the know that a changed test outcome might actually be okay.
Ah, gotcha.