tests: make test_must_fail more verbose

Because test_must_fail fails when a command succeeds, the
command frequently does not produce any output (since, after
all, it thought it was succeeding). So let's have
test_must_fail itself report that a problem occurred.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 3a3d4c4723d4dece710f4f959ab689e1f8fb8760..285bfd89433461e62051e2bfd45e8b7e83638c0c 100644 (file)
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -591,7 +591,15 @@ test_path_is_missing () {
 
 test_must_fail () {
        "$@"
-       test $? -gt 0 -a $? -le 129 -o $? -gt 192
+       exit_code=$?
+       if test $exit_code = 0; then
+               echo >&2 "test_must_fail: command succeeded: $*"
+               return 1
+       elif test $exit_code -gt 129 -a $exit_code -le 192; then
+               echo >&2 "test_must_fail: died by signal: $*"
+               return 1
+       fi
+       return 0
 }
 
 # Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerates success, too.  This is