Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> ... it is determining that grep >> failed in the first place that I find annoying. I've also found the >> output from test_i18ngrep is helpful when debugging CI test failures. > > Thanks, I agree with you that it is very useful for debugging to > have an explicit "I did not find what I expected to see". On the > other hand, the other side is not as severe a problem, I think. If > "grep" expects not to see an error message in the output but the > output has the error we do not want to see, we will see the message > in the "-v" output when we run test. Everything I wrote above makes sense, but what I continued this message with (below---omitted) is total opposite. Let's discard and maybe retry sometime later.