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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Core GIT Tests +Core Git Tests ============== -This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The +This directory holds many test scripts for core Git tools. The first part of this short document describes how to run the tests and read their output. @@ -69,13 +69,28 @@ You can also run each test individually from command line, like this: You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS -appropriately before running "make". +appropriately before running "make". Short options can be bundled, i.e. +'-d -v' is the same as '-dv'. +-v:: --verbose:: This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the command being run and their output if any are also output. +--verbose-only=<pattern>:: + Like --verbose, but the effect is limited to tests with + numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is + simply the running count of the test within the file. + +-x:: + Turn on shell tracing (i.e., `set -x`) during the tests + themselves. Implies `--verbose`. + Ignored in test scripts that set the variable 'test_untraceable' + to a non-empty value, unless it's run with a Bash version + supporting BASH_XTRACEFD, i.e. v4.1 or later. + +-d:: --debug:: This may help the person who is developing a new test. It causes the command defined with test_debug to run. @@ -84,37 +99,69 @@ appropriately before running "make". failed tests so that you can inspect its contents after the test finished. +-i:: --immediate:: This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first - failed test. + failed test. Cleanup commands requested with + test_when_finished are not executed if the test failed, + in order to keep the state for inspection by the tester + to diagnose the bug. +-l:: --long-tests:: This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where available), for more exhaustive testing. ---valgrind:: - Execute all Git binaries with valgrind and exit with status - 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will only stop - the test script when running under -i). Valgrind errors - go to stderr, so you might want to pass the -v option, too. +-r:: +--run=<test-selector>:: + Run only the subset of tests indicated by + <test-selector>. See section "Skipping Tests" below for + <test-selector> syntax. + +--valgrind=<tool>:: + Execute all Git binaries under valgrind tool <tool> and exit + with status 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will + only stop the test script when running under -i). Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For convenience, it also implies --tee. - Note that valgrind is run with the option --leak-check=no, + <tool> defaults to 'memcheck', just like valgrind itself. + Other particularly useful choices include 'helgrind' and + 'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind + installation. + + As a special case, <tool> can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses + memcheck but disables --track-origins. Use this if you are + running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory + issues. + + Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no, as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not interesting. In order to run a single command under the same conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under 't/valgrind/bin/'. +--valgrind-only=<pattern>:: + Like --valgrind, but the effect is limited to tests with + numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is + simply the running count of the test within the file. + --tee:: In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to run the tests with this option in parallel. +-V:: +--verbose-log:: + Write verbose output to the same logfile as `--tee`, but do + _not_ write it to stdout. Unlike `--tee --verbose`, this option + is safe to use when stdout is being consumed by a TAP parser + like `prove`. Implies `--tee` and `--verbose`. + --with-dashes:: By default tests are run without dashed forms of commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses @@ -124,12 +171,59 @@ appropriately before running "make". implied by other options like --valgrind and GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. +--no-bin-wrappers:: + By default, the test suite uses the wrappers in + `../bin-wrappers/` to execute `git` and friends. With this option, + `../git` and friends are run directly. This is not recommended + in general, as the wrappers contain safeguards to ensure that no + files from an installed Git are used, but can speed up test runs + especially on platforms where running shell scripts is expensive + (most notably, Windows). + --root=<directory>:: Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory. Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) can massively speed up the test suite. +--chain-lint:: +--no-chain-lint:: + If --chain-lint is enabled, the test harness will check each + test to make sure that it properly "&&-chains" all commands (so + that a failure in the middle does not go unnoticed by the final + exit code of the test). This check is performed in addition to + running the tests themselves. You may also enable or disable + this feature by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT environment + variable to "1" or "0", respectively. + + A few test scripts disable some of the more advanced + chain-linting detection in the name of efficiency. You can + override this by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER + environment variable to "1". + +--stress:: + Run the test script repeatedly in multiple parallel jobs until + one of them fails. Useful for reproducing rare failures in + flaky tests. The number of parallel jobs is, in order of + precedence: the value of the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD + environment variable, or twice the number of available + processors (as shown by the 'getconf' utility), or 8. + Implies `--verbose -x --immediate` to get the most information + about the failure. Note that the verbose output of each test + job is saved to 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.stress-<nr>.out', + and only the output of the failed test job is shown on the + terminal. The names of the trash directories get a + '.stress-<nr>' suffix, and the trash directory of the failed + test job is renamed to end with a '.stress-failed' suffix. + +--stress-jobs=<N>:: + Override the number of parallel jobs. Implies `--stress`. + +--stress-limit=<N>:: + When combined with --stress run the test script repeatedly + this many times in each of the parallel jobs or until one of + them fails, whichever comes first. Implies `--stress`. + You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various @@ -165,11 +259,194 @@ and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which particular test to skip. -Note that some tests in the existing test suite rely on previous -test item, so you cannot arbitrarily disable one and expect the -remainder of test to check what the test originally was intended -to check. +For an individual test suite --run could be used to specify that +only some tests should be run or that some tests should be +excluded from a run. + +The argument for --run, <test-selector>, is a list of description +substrings or globs or individual test numbers or ranges with an +optional negation prefix (of '!') that define what tests in a test +suite to include (or exclude, if negated) in the run. A range is two +numbers separated with a dash and matches a range of tests with both +ends been included. You may omit the first or the second number to +mean "from the first test" or "up to the very last test" respectively. + +The argument to --run is split on commas into separate strings, +numbers, and ranges, and picks all tests that match any of the +individual selection criteria. If the substring of the description +text that you want to match includes a comma, use the glob character +'?' instead. For example --run='rebase,merge?cherry-pick' would match +on all tests that match either the glob *rebase* or the glob +*merge?cherry-pick*. + +If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range the initial +set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!' +all the tests are added to the initial set. After initial set is +determined every test number or range is added or excluded from +the set one by one, from left to right. + +For example, to run only tests up to a specific test (21), one +could do this: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-21' + +or this: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-21' + +Common case is to run several setup tests (1, 2, 3) and then a +specific test (21) that relies on that setup: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1,2,3,21' + +or: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run=1,2,3,21 + +or: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-3,21' + +As noted above, the test set is built by going through the items +from left to right, so this: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-4,!3' + +will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that come later have higher +precedence. It means that this: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!3,1-4' + +would just run tests from 1 to 4, including 3. + +You may use negation with ranges. The following will run all +test in the test suite except from 7 up to 11: + + $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!7-11' + +Sometimes there may be multiple tests with e.g. "setup" in their name +that are needed and rather than figuring out the number for all of them +we can just use "setup" as a substring/glob to match against the test +description: + + $ sh ./t0050-filesystem.sh --run=setup,9-11 + +or one could select both the setup tests and the rename ones (assuming all +relevant tests had those words in their descriptions): + + $ sh ./t0050-filesystem.sh --run=setup,rename +Some tests in a test suite rely on the previous tests performing +certain actions, specifically some tests are designated as +"setup" test, so you cannot _arbitrarily_ disable one test and +expect the rest to function correctly. + +--run is mostly useful when you want to focus on a specific test +and know what setup is needed for it. Or when you want to run +everything up to a certain test. + + +Running tests with special setups +--------------------------------- + +The whole test suite could be run to test some special features +that cannot be easily covered by a few specific test cases. These +could be enabled by running the test suite with correct GIT_TEST_ +environment set. + +GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS=<boolean> fails all prerequisites. This is +useful for discovering issues with the tests where say a later test +implicitly depends on an optional earlier test. + +There's a "FAIL_PREREQS" prerequisite that can be used to test for +whether this mode is active, and e.g. skip some tests that are hard to +refactor to deal with it. The "SYMLINKS" prerequisite is currently +excluded as so much relies on it, but this might change in the future. + +GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=<boolean> forces split-index mode on the whole +test suite. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. + +GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=<n>, when set, makes 'protocol.version' +default to n. + +GIT_TEST_FULL_IN_PACK_ARRAY=<boolean> exercises the uncommon +pack-objects code path where there are more than 1024 packs even if +the actual number of packs in repository is below this limit. Accept +any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. + +GIT_TEST_OE_SIZE=<n> exercises the uncommon pack-objects code path +where we do not cache object size in memory and read it from existing +packs on demand. This normally only happens when the object size is +over 2GB. This variable forces the code path on any object larger than +<n> bytes. + +GIT_TEST_OE_DELTA_SIZE=<n> exercises the uncommon pack-objects code +path where deltas larger than this limit require extra memory +allocation for bookkeeping. + +GIT_TEST_VALIDATE_INDEX_CACHE_ENTRIES=<boolean> checks that cache-tree +records are valid when the index is written out or after a merge. This +is mostly to catch missing invalidation. Default is true. + +GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH=<boolean>, when true, forces the commit-graph to +be written after every 'git commit' command, and overrides the +'core.commitGraph' setting to true. + +GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS=<boolean>, when true, forces +commit-graph write to compute and write changed path Bloom filters for +every 'git commit-graph write', as if the `--changed-paths` option was +passed in. + +GIT_TEST_FSMONITOR=$PWD/t7519/fsmonitor-all exercises the fsmonitor +code path for utilizing a file system monitor to speed up detecting +new or changed files. + +GIT_TEST_INDEX_VERSION=<n> exercises the index read/write code path +for the index version specified. Can be set to any valid version +(currently 2, 3, or 4). + +GIT_TEST_PACK_SPARSE=<boolean> if disabled will default the pack-objects +builtin to use the non-sparse object walk. This can still be overridden by +the --sparse command-line argument. + +GIT_TEST_PRELOAD_INDEX=<boolean> exercises the preload-index code path +by overriding the minimum number of cache entries required per thread. + +GIT_TEST_ADD_I_USE_BUILTIN=<boolean>, when true, enables the +built-in version of git add -i. See 'add.interactive.useBuiltin' in +git-config(1). + +GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> enables exercising the multi-threaded loading +of the index for the whole test suite by bypassing the default number of +cache entries and thread minimums. Setting this to 1 will make the +index loading single threaded. + +GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=<boolean>, when true, forces the multi-pack- +index to be written after every 'git repack' command, and overrides the +'core.multiPackIndex' setting to true. + +GIT_TEST_SIDEBAND_ALL=<boolean>, when true, overrides the +'uploadpack.allowSidebandAll' setting to true, and when false, forces +fetch-pack to not request sideband-all (even if the server advertises +sideband-all). + +GIT_TEST_DISALLOW_ABBREVIATED_OPTIONS=<boolean>, when true (which is +the default when running tests), errors out when an abbreviated option +is used. + +GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=<hash-algo> specifies which hash algorithm to +use in the test scripts. Recognized values for <hash-algo> are "sha1" +and "sha256". + +GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX=<boolean>, when true enables the +'pack.writeReverseIndex' setting. + +GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=<boolean>, when true enables index writes to use the +sparse-index format by default. + +GIT_TEST_CHECKOUT_WORKERS=<n> overrides the 'checkout.workers' setting +to <n> and 'checkout.thresholdForParallelism' to 0, forcing the +execution of the parallel-checkout code. Naming Tests ------------ @@ -211,13 +488,10 @@ Writing Tests ------------- The test script is written as a shell script. It should start -with the standard "#!/bin/sh" with copyright notices, and an +with the standard "#!/bin/sh", and an assignment to variable 'test_description', like this: #!/bin/sh - # - # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano - # test_description='xxx test (option --frotz) @@ -241,20 +515,21 @@ This test harness library does the following things: - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by - the --root option documented above. + the --root option documented above, and a '.stress-<N>' suffix + appended by the --stress option. - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. -Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind -------------------------------------- +Do's & don'ts +------------- Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do when writing tests. -Do: +Here are the "do's:" - Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions. @@ -299,34 +574,125 @@ Do: Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. -Don't: + - Remember that inside the <script> part, the standard output and + standard error streams are discarded, and the test harness only + reports "ok" or "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under + --verbose, they are shown to help debug the tests. + + - Be careful when you loop + + You may need to verify multiple things in a loop, but the + following does not work correctly: + + test_expect_success 'test three things' ' + for i in one two three + do + test_something "$i" + done && + test_something_else + ' + + Because the status of the loop itself is the exit status of the + test_something in the last round, the loop does not fail when + "test_something" for "one" or "two" fails. This is not what you + want. + + Instead, you can break out of the loop immediately when you see a + failure. Because all test_expect_* snippets are executed inside + a function, "return 1" can be used to fail the test immediately + upon a failure: + + test_expect_success 'test three things' ' + for i in one two three + do + test_something "$i" || return 1 + done && + test_something_else + ' + + Note that we still &&-chain the loop to propagate failures from + earlier commands. + - - exit() within a <script> part. +And here are the "don'ts:" + + - Don't exit() within a <script> part. The harness will catch this as a programming error of the test. Use test_done instead if you need to stop the tests early (see "Skipping tests" below). - - use '! git cmd' when you want to make sure the git command exits - with failure in a controlled way by calling "die()". Instead, + - Don't use '! git cmd' when you want to make sure the git command + exits with failure in a controlled way by calling "die()". Instead, use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault). - - use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our - friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before + On the other hand, don't use test_must_fail for running regular + platform commands; just use '! cmd'. We are not in the business + of verifying that the world given to us sanely works. + + - Don't feed the output of a git command to a pipe, as in: + + git -C repo ls-files | + xargs -n 1 basename | + grep foo + + which will discard git's exit code and may mask a crash. In the + above example, all exit codes are ignored except grep's. + + Instead, write the output of that command to a temporary + file with ">" or assign it to a variable with "x=$(git ...)" rather + than pipe it. + + - Don't use command substitution in a way that discards git's exit + code. When assigning to a variable, the exit code is not discarded, + e.g.: + + x=$(git cat-file -p $sha) && + ... + + is OK because a crash in "git cat-file" will cause the "&&" chain + to fail, but: + + test "refs/heads/foo" = "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)" + + is not OK and a crash in git could go undetected. + + - Don't use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help + our friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that - does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. + does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. Note that we + provide a "perl" function which uses $PERL_PATH under the hood, so + you do not need to worry when simply running perl in the test scripts + (but you do, for example, on a shebang line or in a sub script + created via "write_script"). - - use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script can - be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). + - Don't use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script + can be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). - - chdir around in tests. It is not sufficient to chdir to + - Don't chdir around in tests. It is not sufficient to chdir to somewhere and then chdir back to the original location later in the test, as any intermediate step can fail and abort the test, causing the next test to start in an unexpected directory. Do so inside a subshell if necessary. - - Break the TAP output + - Don't save and verify the standard error of compound commands, i.e. + group commands, subshells, and shell functions (except test helper + functions like 'test_must_fail') like this: + + ( cd dir && git cmd ) 2>error && + test_cmp expect error + + When running the test with '-x' tracing, then the trace of commands + executed in the compound command will be included in standard error + as well, quite possibly throwing off the subsequent checks examining + the output. Instead, save only the relevant git command's standard + error: + + ( cd dir && git cmd 2>../error ) && + test_cmp expect error + + - Don't break the TAP output The raw output from your test may be interpreted by a TAP harness. TAP harnesses will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step @@ -342,17 +708,10 @@ Don't: their output. You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar - (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar) + (see https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP-GRAMMAR) but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), it'll complain if anything is amiss. -Keep in mind: - - - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error - streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or - "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they - are shown to help debugging the tests. - Skipping tests -------------- @@ -362,7 +721,7 @@ of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section below), e.g.: test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' ' - "$PERL_PATH" -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" + perl -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" ' The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't @@ -440,6 +799,11 @@ library for your script to use. argument. This is primarily meant for use during the development of a new test script. + - debug <git-command> + + Run a git command inside a debugger. This is primarily meant for + use when debugging a failing test script. + - test_done Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose @@ -477,9 +841,11 @@ library for your script to use. - test_have_prereq <prereq> - Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with - test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip - all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite: + Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq. + The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the + implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip + all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some + essential prerequisite: if ! test_have_prereq PERL then @@ -495,7 +861,7 @@ library for your script to use. test_external \ 'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \ - "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl + perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first @@ -511,7 +877,7 @@ library for your script to use. test_external_without_stderr \ 'Perl API' \ - "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl + perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command> @@ -522,7 +888,7 @@ library for your script to use. test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master ' - - test_must_fail <git-command> + - test_must_fail [<options>] <git-command> Run a git command and ensure it fails in a controlled way. Use this instead of "! <git-command>". When git-command dies due to a @@ -530,28 +896,43 @@ library for your script to use. treats it as just another expected failure, which would let such a bug go unnoticed. - - test_might_fail <git-command> + Accepts the following options: + + ok=<signal-name>[,<...>]: + Don't treat an exit caused by the given signal as error. + Multiple signals can be specified as a comma separated list. + Currently recognized signal names are: sigpipe, success. + (Don't use 'success', use 'test_might_fail' instead.) + + - test_might_fail [<options>] <git-command> Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this instead of "<git-command> || :" to catch failures due to segv. + Accepts the same options as test_must_fail. + - test_cmp <expected> <actual> Check whether the content of the <actual> file matches the <expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option. + - test_cmp_rev <expected> <actual> + + Check whether the <expected> rev points to the same commit as the + <actual> rev. + - test_line_count (= | -lt | -ge | ...) <length> <file> Check whether a file has the length it is expected to. - - test_path_is_file <path> [<diagnosis>] - test_path_is_dir <path> [<diagnosis>] - test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>] + - test_path_is_file <path> + test_path_is_dir <path> + test_path_is_missing <path> Check if the named path is a file, if the named path is a directory, or if the named path does not exist, respectively, - and fail otherwise, showing the <diagnosis> text. + and fail otherwise. - test_when_finished <script> @@ -567,6 +948,47 @@ library for your script to use. ... ' + - test_atexit <script> + + Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run unconditionally to + clean up before the test script exits, e.g. to stop a daemon: + + test_expect_success 'test git daemon' ' + git daemon & + daemon_pid=$! && + test_atexit 'kill $daemon_pid' && + hello world + ' + + The commands will be executed before the trash directory is removed, + i.e. the atexit commands will still be able to access any pidfiles or + socket files. + + Note that these commands will be run even when a test script run + with '--immediate' fails. Be careful with your atexit commands to + minimize any changes to the failed state. + + - test_write_lines <lines> + + Write <lines> on standard output, one line per argument. + Useful to prepare multi-line files in a compact form. + + Example: + + test_write_lines a b c d e f g >foo + + Is a more compact equivalent of: + cat >foo <<-EOF + a + b + c + d + e + f + g + EOF + + - test_pause This command is useful for writing and debugging tests and must be @@ -580,6 +1002,60 @@ library for your script to use. test_cmp expected actual ' + - test_ln_s_add <path1> <path2> + + This function helps systems whose filesystem does not support symbolic + links. Use it to add a symbolic link entry to the index when it is not + important that the file system entry is a symbolic link, i.e., instead + of the sequence + + ln -s foo bar && + git add bar + + Sometimes it is possible to split a test in a part that does not need + the symbolic link in the file system and a part that does; then only + the latter part need be protected by a SYMLINKS prerequisite (see below). + + - test_oid_init + + This function loads facts and useful object IDs related to the hash + algorithm(s) in use from the files in t/oid-info. + + - test_oid_cache + + This function reads per-hash algorithm information from standard + input (usually a heredoc) in the format described in + t/oid-info/README. This is useful for test-specific values, such as + object IDs, which must vary based on the hash algorithm. + + Certain fixed values, such as hash sizes and common placeholder + object IDs, can be loaded with test_oid_init (described above). + + - test_oid <key> + + This function looks up a value for the hash algorithm in use, based + on the key given. The value must have been loaded using + test_oid_init or test_oid_cache. Providing an unknown key is an + error. + + - yes [<string>] + + This is often seen in modern UNIX but some platforms lack it, so + the test harness overrides the platform implementation with a + more limited one. Use this only when feeding a handful lines of + output to the downstream---unlike the real version, it generates + only up to 99 lines. + + - test_bool_env <env-variable-name> <default-value> + + Given the name of an environment variable with a bool value, + normalize its value to a 0 (true) or 1 (false or empty string) + return code. Return with code corresponding to the given default + value if the variable is unset. + Abort the test script if either the value of the variable or the + default are not valid bool values. + + Prerequisites ------------- @@ -590,11 +1066,18 @@ See the prereq argument to the test_* functions in the "Test harness library" section above and the "test_have_prereq" function for how to use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. - - PERL & PYTHON + - PYTHON + + Git wasn't compiled with NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that + need Python with this. + + - PERL - Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease or - NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that need Perl or Python in - these. + Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. + + Even without the PERL prerequisite, tests can assume there is a + usable perl interpreter at $PERL_PATH, though it need not be + particularly modern. - POSIXPERM @@ -610,6 +1093,11 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. The process retains the same pid across exec(2). See fb9a2bea for details. + - PIPE + + The filesystem we're on supports creation of FIFOs (named pipes) + via mkfifo(1). + - SYMLINKS The filesystem we're on supports symbolic links. E.g. a FAT @@ -620,9 +1108,9 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an unwritable file is expected to fail correctly. - - LIBPCRE + - PCRE - Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests + Git was compiled with support for PCRE. Wrap any tests that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these. - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS @@ -634,27 +1122,37 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd) to precomposed utf-8 (nfc). + - PTHREADS + + Git wasn't compiled with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease. + + - REFFILES + + Test is specific to packed/loose ref storage, and should be + disabled for other ref storage backends + + Tips for Writing Tests ---------------------- As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in -that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it +that it tries to validate the very core of Git. For example, it knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/, and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain 40-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is -to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal +to serve as a basis for people who are changing the Git internals drastically. For these people, after making certain changes, not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And -such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these +such drastic changes to the core Git that even changes these otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by an update to t0000-basic.sh. However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core -GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate -knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts +Git working properly should not have that level of intimate +knowledge of the core Git internals. If all the test scripts hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing |