chainlint.pl: don't require `return|exit|continue` to end with `&&`
commit35ebb1e37b25b9d799d1064d36a2ce668ad20264
authorEric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Thu, 1 Sep 2022 00:29:45 +0000 (1 00:29 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 1 Sep 2022 17:07:40 +0000 (1 10:07 -0700)
treeeba4a0a320c6973fe50f8505c9380e453d517630
parent29fb2ec384a867ca577335a12f4b45c184e7b642
chainlint.pl: don't require `return|exit|continue` to end with `&&`

In order to check for &&-chain breakage, each time TestParser encounters
a new command, it checks whether the previous command ends with `&&`,
and -- with a couple exceptions -- signals breakage if it does not. The
first exception is that a command may validly end with `||`, which is
commonly employed as `command || return 1` at the very end of a loop
body to terminate the loop early. The second is that piping one
command's output with `|` to another command does not constitute a
&&-chain break (the exit status of the pipe is the exit status of the
final command in the pipe).

However, it turns out that there are a few additional cases found in the
wild in which it is likely safe for `&&` to be missing even when other
commands follow. For instance:

    while {condition-1}
    do
        test {condition-2} || return 1 # or `exit 1` within a subshell
        more-commands
    done

    while {condition-1}
    do
        test {condition-2} || continue
        more-commands
    done

Such cases indicate deliberate thought about failure modes by the test
author, thus flagging them as breaking the &&-chain is not helpful.
Therefore, take these special cases into consideration when checking for
&&-chain breakage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/chainlint.pl
t/chainlint/chain-break-continue.expect [new file with mode: 0644]
t/chainlint/chain-break-continue.test [new file with mode: 0644]
t/chainlint/chain-break-return-exit.expect [new file with mode: 0644]
t/chainlint/chain-break-return-exit.test [new file with mode: 0644]
t/chainlint/return-loop.expect [new file with mode: 0644]
t/chainlint/return-loop.test [new file with mode: 0644]