Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilo...@gmail.com> writes: >> We need new tests for "git rebase --signoff" that makes sure this >> works as expected and only when it should. > > Would the norm in this case be to introduce the test in the same > commit, or in a previous commit (as in: this is the feature we want to > implement, it obviously doesn't work now, but the next commit will fix > that), or in a subsequent one?
For a new feature (especially with this small implementation), it is best to have the test in the same commit. We often use the "start with expect_failure, update the code while flipping _failure to _success" pattern but that is primarily suitable for bugfixes.
