diff --git a/bats/arg-parsing.bats b/bats/arg-parsing.bats
index 474b5e1d89..6855bbbe79 100644
--- a/bats/arg-parsing.bats
+++ b/bats/arg-parsing.bats
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ teardown() {
     dolt table import -fc test `batshelper 1pk5col-ints.csv`
 }
 
-@test "dolt does not panic and returns error when empty string used with checkout" {
+@test "dolt checkout with empty string returns error" {
     run dolt checkout ""
-    skip "Panics when attempting to checkout empty string" [[ "$output" =~ "error: cannot checkout empty string" ]] || false
-    [ $status -eq 2 ]
+    skip "Panics when attempting to checkout empty string"
+    [[ "$output" =~ "error: cannot checkout empty string" ]] || false
+    [ $status -ne 0 ]
 
     run dolt checkout -b ""
     [[ "$output" =~ "error: cannot checkout empty string" ]] || false
-    [ $status -eq 2 ]
+    [ $status -ne 0 ]
 }