Merge branch 'jn/t7006-fixup' into maint

[git.git] / t / test-lib.sh

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 7422bba47e75e00073779e4b2d7a162862cdb426..9bfa14be7f1c3935013d04318eeaecc68b4ef88c 100644 (file)
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -530,6 +530,22 @@ test_must_fail () {
        test $? -gt 0 -a $? -le 129 -o $? -gt 192
 }
 
+# Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerates success, too.  This is
+# meant to be used in contexts like:
+#
+#      test_expect_success 'some command works without configuration' '
+#              test_might_fail git config --unset all.configuration &&
+#              do something
+#      '
+#
+# Writing "git config --unset all.configuration || :" would be wrong,
+# because we want to notice if it fails due to segv.
+
+test_might_fail () {
+       "$@"
+       test $? -ge 0 -a $? -le 129 -o $? -gt 192
+}
+
 # test_cmp is a helper function to compare actual and expected output.
 # You can use it like:
 #