On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 08:56:14PM -0400, Kyle Meyer wrote: > diff --git a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh > index be8b113b1..c5c8e95fc 100755 > --- a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh > +++ b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh > @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ test_expect_success "fail to delete $m with stale ref" ' > ' > test_expect_success "delete $m" ' > git update-ref -d $m $B && > - ! test -f .git/$m > + test_path_is_missing .git/$m > ' I think this is an improvement for now. I suspect that all of these will have to become "test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify $m" in the long run, when we want to run the test suite against an alternate ref backend. That can wait, though. -Peff