On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:21:55PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > I don't think so. What is the outcome of > > false && # simulate a regression > grep foo && exit 1 > ! grep bar || exit 1 > > assuming that the '! grep bar' happens to be true? Answer: The regression > is not diagnosed because the &&-chain is broken. > > *That* is what I think you described earlier in this thread as "I put > something failing on the first line of the original version, and the test > succeeded." Yeah, I think that is the bit that I was missing from my original confusion. false && anything || exit 1 _does_ work. But that is not what is written. ;) Thanks for pointing it out. -Peff -- 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