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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/t/t1200-tutorial.sh b/t/t1200-tutorial.sh
index 991d3c5e9c..dcb3108c29 100755
--- a/t/t1200-tutorial.sh
+++ b/t/t1200-tutorial.sh
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ echo "Play, play, play" >>hello
 echo "Lots of fun" >>example
 git commit -m 'Some fun.' -i hello example
 
-test_expect_failure 'git resolve now fails' '
-	git merge -m "Merge work in mybranch" mybranch
+test_expect_success 'git resolve now fails' '
+	! git merge -m "Merge work in mybranch" mybranch
 '
 
 cat > hello << EOF
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ test_expect_success 'git show-branch' 'cmp show-branch2.expect show-branch2.outp
 
 test_expect_success 'git repack' 'git repack'
 test_expect_success 'git prune-packed' 'git prune-packed'
-test_expect_failure '-> only packed objects' 'find -type f .git/objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]'
+test_expect_success '-> only packed objects' '
+	! find -type f .git/objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]
+'
 
 test_done