Hi Junio, On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 09:31:22PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > >> In 0b294c0abf0 (make deleting a missing ref more quiet, 2008-07-08), we > >> added a test to verify that deleting an already-deleted ref does not > >> show an error. > > > > Amazing that it took this long to come up. > > ... > >> This patch chooses instead to look for the prefix "error:" at the > >> beginning of the line, so that there can be no ambiguity that any catch > >> was indeed a message generated by Git's `error_builtin()` function. > > > > Yep, this seems obviously correct. > > Hits in > > $ git grep 'grep ["'\'']*error' t > > shows that many checks for errors that are not anchored, but I do > not think any of them are looking for the string in a pathname other > than this instance, so it would be OK. Yes, they are okay, I did run the entire test suite in a worktree with the same name as my branch name: fix-t5404-error. Ciao, Dscho