1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/t/t9700/test.pl b/t/t9700/test.pl
index 3b9b48408a..1140767b50 100755
--- a/t/t9700/test.pl
+++ b/t/t9700/test.pl
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ is($r->get_color("color.test.slot1", "red"), $ansi_green, "get_color");
 # Failure cases for config:
 # Save and restore STDERR; we will probably extract this into a
 # "dies_ok" method and possibly move the STDERR handling to Git.pm.
-open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR"; close STDERR;
-eval { $r->config("test.dupstring") };
-ok($@, "config: duplicate entry in scalar context fails");
+open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR";
+open STDERR, ">", "/dev/null" or die "cannot redirect STDERR to /dev/null";
+is($r->config("test.dupstring"), "value2", "config: multivar");
 eval { $r->config_bool("test.boolother") };
 ok($@, "config_bool: non-boolean values fail");
 open STDERR, ">&", $tmpstderr or die "cannot restore STDERR";