From 41ac414ea2bef81af94474cbef25a38868b4788e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 01:50:53 -0800
Subject: Sane use of test_expect_failure

Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite
of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision.  Most tests
run a series of commands that leads to the single command that
needs to be tested, like this:

    test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' '
	setup1 &&
        setup2 &&
        setup3 &&
        what is to be tested
    '

And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the
point of writing tests.  Your setup$N that are supposed to
succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are
trying to test.  The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to
check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which
is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands.

This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to
use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is
tested, like this:

    test_expect_success 'test title' '
	setup1 &&
        setup2 &&
        setup3 &&
        ! this command should fail
    '

test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that
that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it
currently does not pass.  So if git-foo command should create a
file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can
write a test like this:

    test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' '
        rm -f bar &&
        git foo &&
        test -f bar
    '

This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead
of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the
outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 t/t2008-checkout-subdir.sh | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 't/t2008-checkout-subdir.sh')

diff --git a/t/t2008-checkout-subdir.sh b/t/t2008-checkout-subdir.sh
index f78945ed8..4a723dc0e 100755
--- a/t/t2008-checkout-subdir.sh
+++ b/t/t2008-checkout-subdir.sh
@@ -67,16 +67,16 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout with simple prefix' '
 
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'relative path outside tree should fail' \
-	'git checkout HEAD -- ../../Makefile'
+test_expect_success 'relative path outside tree should fail' \
+	'! git checkout HEAD -- ../../Makefile'
 
-test_expect_failure 'incorrect relative path to file should fail (1)' \
-	'git checkout HEAD -- ../file0'
+test_expect_success 'incorrect relative path to file should fail (1)' \
+	'! git checkout HEAD -- ../file0'
 
-test_expect_failure 'incorrect relative path should fail (2)' \
-	'( cd dir1 && git checkout HEAD -- ./file0 )'
+test_expect_success 'incorrect relative path should fail (2)' \
+	'( cd dir1 && ! git checkout HEAD -- ./file0 )'
 
-test_expect_failure 'incorrect relative path should fail (3)' \
-	'( cd dir1 && git checkout HEAD -- ../../file0 )'
+test_expect_success 'incorrect relative path should fail (3)' \
+	'( cd dir1 && ! git checkout HEAD -- ../../file0 )'
 
 test_done
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