On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 04:48:14PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone else have views on whether this is good thing to test for?
> 
> I know you don't mean to be rude, but this comes across as a bit of
> a dismissive question.

Sorry, that wasn't my intention, but I see how it could have come off
that way.  I was trying to solicit other opinions, but did a bad job and
implied yours wasn't valuable.  I apologize.

> > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 04:32:14PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> In my humble opinion, the bug being subtle makes it especially useful
> to have a test that describes that bug.  That way, if someone is
> refactoring this code later then they know what to watch out for not
> reintroducing.

Okay.  I'll reroll with a patch to the tests.  I agree that this is
rather subtle.
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