On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Amend the test suite to test for more invalid uses like "-l -a" >>>> etc. This change tests this code path in builtin/tag.c: >>>> >>>> `(argc == 0 && !cmdmode)` >>>> -> >>>> `((create_tag_object || force) && (cmdmode != 0))` >>> >>> What is this notation trying to tell us? A range of lines starting >>> with the first one to the second one? >> >> Yeah. > > The reason why I asked about the original notation was because it > looked as if you are saying "the former is changed to the latter, > and this is to make sure it does not regress". > > Compared to that, spelling out why in a readable sentence would be > much more helpful for later readers of the log output, no matter > what they want to do with the information. Ah, I see. Will reword as "between lines .. and ...". I think it's worth showing the actual code it's trying to test since it's short enough, and anyone digging into these tests would want to know what part of the code the tests were trying to test.