From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> assert() can succinctly document expectations for the code, and do so in a way that may be useful to future folks trying to refactor the code and change basic assumptions; it allows them to more quickly find some places where their violations of previous assumptions trips things up. Unfortunately, assert() can surround a function call with important side-effects, which is a huge mistake since some users will compile with assertions disabled. I've had to debug such mistakes before in other codebases, so I should know better. Luckily, this was only in test code, but it's still very embarrassing. Change an assert() to an if (...) BUG (...). Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/helper/test-fast-rebase.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/helper/test-fast-rebase.c b/t/helper/test-fast-rebase.c index 373212256a66..39fb7f41e8c1 100644 --- a/t/helper/test-fast-rebase.c +++ b/t/helper/test-fast-rebase.c @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ int cmd__fast_rebase(int argc, const char **argv) assert(oideq(&onto->object.oid, &head)); hold_locked_index(&lock, LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR); - assert(repo_read_index(the_repository) >= 0); + if (repo_read_index(the_repository) < 0) + BUG("Could not read index"); repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &revs, NULL); revs.verbose_header = 1; -- gitgitgadget