On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 1:48 PM SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> wrote: > Prior to d3c6751b18 (tests: make use of the test_must_be_empty > function, 2018-07-27), in the test 'rev-list should succeed with empty > output on empty stdin' in 't6018-rev-list-glob' the empty 'expect' > file served dual purpose: besides specifying the expected output, as > usual, it also served as empty input for 'git rev-list --stdin'. > > Then d3c6751b18 came along, and, as part of the conversion to > 'test_must_be_empty', removed this empty 'expect' file, not realizing > its secondary purpose. Redirecting stdin from the now non-existing > file failed the test, but since this test expects failure in the first > place, this issue went unnoticed.
Can you say a word or two (here in the email thread) about how you're finding these failures (across the various test fixes you've posted recently)? Are you instrumenting the code in some fashion? Or, finding them by visual inspection? Thanks.
