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-rw-r--r--t/test-lib.sh22
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 55f263a02d..48ee3b16ec 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -19,13 +19,20 @@
# t/ subdirectory and are run in 'trash directory' subdirectory.
if test -z "$TEST_DIRECTORY"
then
- # We allow tests to override this, in case they want to run tests
- # outside of t/, e.g. for running tests on the test library
- # itself.
- TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
-else
# ensure that TEST_DIRECTORY is an absolute path so that it
# is valid even if the current working directory is changed
+ TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
+else
+ # The TEST_DIRECTORY will always be the path to the "t"
+ # directory in the git.git checkout. This is overridden by
+ # e.g. t/lib-subtest.sh, but only because its $(pwd) is
+ # different. Those tests still set "$TEST_DIRECTORY" to the
+ # same path.
+ #
+ # See use of "$GIT_BUILD_DIR" and "$TEST_DIRECTORY" below for
+ # hard assumptions about "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t" existing and being
+ # the "$TEST_DIRECTORY", and e.g. "$TEST_DIRECTORY/helper"
+ # needing to exist.
TEST_DIRECTORY=$(cd "$TEST_DIRECTORY" && pwd) || exit 1
fi
if test -z "$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY"
@@ -35,6 +42,11 @@ then
TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=$TEST_DIRECTORY
fi
GIT_BUILD_DIR="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/..
+if test "$TEST_DIRECTORY" = "${TEST_DIRECTORY%/t}"
+then
+ echo "PANIC: Running in a $TEST_DIRECTORY that doesn't end in '/t'?" >&2
+ exit 1
+fi
# Prepend a string to a VAR using an arbitrary ":" delimiter, not
# adding the delimiter if VAR or VALUE is empty. I.e. a generalized: