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| author | Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> | 2024-09-10 00:10:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-09-10 10:01:40 -0700 |
| commit | e44f15ba3ee873b5df5e8e5d8cc018df288472ef (patch) | |
| tree | 8718076d76999f67df5c99c70f6a211709976c45 /t/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect | |
| parent | 588ef84ecef2c9782598529ba6511d4cb72ec158 (diff) | |
chainlint: make error messages self-explanatory
The annotations emitted by chainlint to indicate detected problems are
overly terse, so much so that developers new to the project -- those who
should most benefit from the linting -- may find them baffling. For
instance, although the author of chainlint and seasoned Git developers
may understand that "?!AMP?!" is an abbreviation of "ampersand" and
indicates a break in the &&-chain, this may not be obvious to newcomers.
The "?!LOOP?!" case is particularly serious because that terse single
word does nothing to convey that the loop body should end with
"|| return 1" (or "|| exit 1" in a subshell) to ensure that a failing
command in the body aborts the loop immediately. Moreover, unlike
&&-chaining which is ubiquitous in Git tests, the "|| return 1" idiom is
relatively infrequent, thus may be harder for a newcomer to discover by
consulting nearby code.
Address these shortcomings by emitting human-readable messages which
both explain the problem and give a strong hint about how to correct it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 't/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/t/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect b/t/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect index c13c4d2f90..b4aaa621a2 100644 --- a/t/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect +++ b/t/chainlint/nested-loop-detect-failure.expect @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ 3 do 4 for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; 5 do -6 echo "$i$j" >"path$i$j" ?!LOOP?! -7 done ?!LOOP?! +6 echo "$i$j" >"path$i$j" ?!LINT: missing '|| return 1'?! +7 done ?!LINT: missing '|| return 1'?! 8 done && 9 10 for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 19 do 20 for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; 21 do -22 echo "$i$j" >"path$i$j" ?!LOOP?! +22 echo "$i$j" >"path$i$j" ?!LINT: missing '|| return 1'?! 23 done || return 1 24 done && 25 |