From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This test has had the wrong title since it was created.[1] Use `always` like the description says and negate the expected outcome. The test works since `core.logAllRefUpdates` set to `true` does not create a reflog for that ref namespace. So the test is testing the config variable, not the option. The test itself is fine and does not hide a bug: `--no-create-reflog` is not supposed to override `core.logAllRefUpdates`. † 1: 341fb286212 (refs: add option core.logAllRefUpdates = always, 2017-01-27) Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Notes (series): From the commit message: “ The test itself is fine and does not hide a bug: `--no-create-reflog` is not supposed to override A source for that: roundabout through git-branch(1): “ The negated form --no-create-reflog only overrides an earlier --create-reflog, but currently does not negate the setting of core.logAllRefUpdates. I *suppose* that the same applies to update-ref since (I suppose) they use the same underlying machinery. See also git-tag(1) which says the same thing. update-ref should document the same thing, then. I have that marked as a todo item. The changes there are a bit too involved to implicate in this submission. t/t1400-update-ref.sh | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh index eb1691860da..9bf87db4775 100755 --- a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh +++ b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh @@ -169,14 +169,14 @@ test_expect_success 'core.logAllRefUpdates=always creates reflog for ORIG_HEAD' git reflog exists ORIG_HEAD ' -test_expect_success '--no-create-reflog overrides core.logAllRefUpdates=always' ' - test_config core.logAllRefUpdates true && +test_expect_success '--no-create-reflog does not override core.logAllRefUpdates=always' ' + test_config core.logAllRefUpdates always && test_when_finished "git update-ref -d $outside" && git update-ref --no-create-reflog $outside $A && git rev-parse $A >expect && git rev-parse $outside >actual && test_cmp expect actual && - test_must_fail git reflog exists $outside + git reflog exists $outside ' test_expect_success "create $m (by HEAD)" ' base-commit: 34b6ce9b30747131b6e781ff718a45328aa887d0 -- 2.46.1.641.g54e7913fcb6