On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Not really. We were already doing a controlled failure via die(),
so these two tests would not have caught the problem in the code
before the fix in this patch.
BUG is apparently considered a "wrong" failure and not a controlled one
by test_must_fail. I just double-checked that the tests fail without
this patch.
not ok 119 - --exclude-promisor-objects does not BUG-crash
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# test_must_fail git blame --exclude-promisor-objects one
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# failed 1 among 119 test(s)
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