Thomas Rast wrote: > --- a/t/t9700/test.pl > +++ b/t/t9700/test.pl > @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ is($r->get_color("color.test.slot1", "red"), $ansi_green, "get_color"); > # Failure cases for config: > # Save and restore STDERR; we will probably extract this into a > # "dies_ok" method and possibly move the STDERR handling to Git.pm. > -open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR"; close STDERR; > +open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR"; > +open STDERR, ">", "/dev/null" or die "cannot redirect STDERR to /dev/null"; > is($r->config("test.dupstring"), "value2", "config: multivar"); > eval { $r->config_bool("test.boolother") }; > ok($@, "config_bool: non-boolean values fail"); > open STDERR, ">&", $tmpstderr or die "cannot restore STDERR"; Yeah, this makes sense. At first I was confused: why not just let stderr go out to the console, where a person reading can see it? But this test is meant to be run using test_external_without_stderr, which redirects stderr to a file and dies if it ends up getting any content. perlfunc(1) documents the close-and-then-open trick for redirecting a filehandle to an in-memory buffer. Here a plain reopen works fine. So for what it's worth Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html