Randall S. Becker wrote:
> On February 28, 2018 12:44 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Randall S. Becker wrote:
>>> The problem is actually in git code in its test suite that uses perl
>>> inline, not in my test code itself.
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>> Can you elaborate with an example? My understanding was that
>> test_must_fail is only for running git.
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> Have a look at a recent t1404 as a sample. Line 615 is the one causing the
> platform grief, because it triggers a 'die'. However, the particular test
> case #54, had no difference on platform with test_must_fail or !, which has
> the same underlying EBADF completion after digging and digging.
Sorry to be dense: what I see on that line is
test_must_fail git update-ref -d $prefix/foo >out 2>err &&
How is perl involved?
Puzzled,
Jonathan