On Wed, Sep 16 2020, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:17 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Change a test that used a plain test_cmp to first check the file(s) >> using test_path_is_file. If some of these file(s) don't exist (as >> happened to me during debugging), test_cmp will emit a way less useful >> message about the failure. > > An alternative would be to update test_cmp() to present a more helpful > error message so that all test scripts can benefit rather than just > this script. By the way, were you testing with a reasonably recent > version of Git? I ask because test_cmp() was updated not long ago to > provide better diagnostics when one of the files is missing. > > [1]: d572f52a64 (test_cmp: diagnose incorrect arguments, 2020-08-09) Thanks (and also to Đoàn Trần Công Danh in a side-thread). I've dropped this patch. It's indeed better to leave this to a more general facility as in your now-integrated test_cmp patch. The reason I came up with this now-useless patch is because I originally started hacking this series on a slightly older version of git, which didn't have that patch.
