Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 08:37:28PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > >> But if this case really is just "if (from_stdin)" that's quite easy, >> too. > > So here is that patch (with some associated refactoring and cleanups). > This is conceptually independent of jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final, > though it should be fine to merge with that topic. The BUG will actually > pass the new test, because it calls die, too. I wonder if we should die > with a unique error code on BUGs, and catch them in test_must_fail > similar to the way we catch signal death. > > [1/3]: t5000: extract nongit function to test-lib-functions.sh > [2/3]: index-pack: complain when --stdin is used outside of a repo > [3/3]: t: use nongit() function where applicable I think 2/3 is a good change to ensure we get a reasonable error for "index-pack --stdin", and 3/3 is a very good cleanup. Both of them of course are enabled by 1/3. We still fail "nongit git index-pack tmp.pack" with a BUG: though.