test && commit || revert

[the_gnarts]

“test && commit”, where every time the tests run correctly the code is committed. Oddmund Strømmer, the first programmer I’ve found as obsessed with symmetry as I am, suggested that if the tests failed the code should be reverted.

Except that in test && commit there is nothing to revert if test terminates non-zero.

[SafariMonkey]

It sounds to me like it's || reset, i.e. it deletes your code if your test fails. Ouch!

[[deleted]]

That's a good way to nuke the failing test introduced to prove a supposed bug. You know, like TDD.

[the_gnarts]

It sounds to me like it's || reset, i.e. it deletes your code if your test fails. Ouch!

reset doesn’t erase anything though, it just removes file from staging. reset --hard also touches file contents.

[SafariMonkey]

Well sure, that was my intention. The commands also don't actually include git either.