> It's also not really necessary to catch an exception here, as any exception would make the test fail anyway.

Yes, but IMO doing it this way better documents the bug.

> Sidenote: you can just push changes to the branch in your fork and it'll show up here without opening a separate pull request.

Ahh, I see - GitHub made some changes so that this works now. Last time I tried the comments on the previous commits were lost.