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2009-03-05Merge branch 'js/valgrind'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+88
* js/valgrind: valgrind: do not require valgrind 3.4.0 or newer test-lib: avoid assuming that templates/ are in the GIT_EXEC_PATH Tests: let --valgrind imply --verbose and --tee Add a script to coalesce the valgrind outputs t/Makefile: provide a 'valgrind' target test-lib.sh: optionally output to test-results/$TEST.out, too Valgrind support: check for more than just programming errors valgrind: ignore ldso and more libz errors Add valgrind support in test scripts
2009-02-18Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: tests: fix "export var=val" Skip timestamp differences for diff --no-index Documentation/git-push: --all, --mirror, --tags can not be combined
2009-02-18tests: fix "export var=val"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Some shells do not like "export var=val"; the right way to write it is to do an assignment and then export just the variable name. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03test-lib: avoid assuming that templates/ are in the GIT_EXEC_PATHLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+1
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03Tests: let --valgrind imply --verbose and --teeLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+2
It does not make much sense to run the (expensive) valgrind tests and not look at the output. To prevent output from scrolling out of reach, the parameter --tee is implied, too. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03test-lib.sh: optionally output to test-results/$TEST.out, tooLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+18
When tests are run in parallel and a few tests fail, it does not help that the output of the terminal is totally confusing, as you rarely know which test which line came from. So introduce the option '--tee' which triggers that the output of the tests will be written to t/test-results/$TEST.out in addition to the terminal, where $TEST is the basename of the script. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to redirect a given file descriptor to a specified subprocess in POSIX shell, only redirection to a file is supported via 'exec > $FILE'. At least with bash, one might think that 'exec >($COMMAND)' would work as intended, but it does not. The common way to work around the lack of proper tools support is to work with named pipes, alas, one of our most beloved platforms does not really support named pipes. Besides, we would need a pipe for every script, as the whole point of this patch is to allow parallel execution. Therefore, we handle the redirection in the following way: when '--tee' was passed to the test script, the variable GIT_TEST_TEE_STARTED is set (to avoid triggering that code path again) and the script is started _again_, in a subshell, redirected to the command "tee". Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03Valgrind support: check for more than just programming errorsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+15
This patch makes --valgrind try to override _all_ Git binaries in the PATH, and it makes it an error to call *.sh and *.perl scripts directly. While it is not strictly necessary to look through the whole PATH to find git binaries to override, it is in line with running an expensive test (which valgrind is) to make extra sure that only binaries are tested that actually come from the git.git checkout. In the same spirit, we can test that neither our test suite nor our scripts try to run the *.sh or *.perl scripts directly. It's more like a "because we can" than a "this is tightly connected to valgrind", but in the author's opinion "because we can" is "so we should" in this case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03Add valgrind support in test scriptsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+56
This patch adds the ability to use valgrind's memcheck tool to diagnose memory problems in Git while running the test scripts. It requires valgrind 3.4.0 or newer. It works by creating symlinks to a valgrind script, which have the same name as our Git binaries, and then putting that directory in front of the test script's PATH as well as set GIT_EXEC_PATH to that directory. Git scripts are symlinked from that directory directly. That way, Git binaries called by Git scripts are valgrinded, too. Valgrind can be used by specifying "GIT_TEST_OPTS=--valgrind" in the make invocation. Any invocation of git that finds any errors under valgrind will exit with failure code 126. Any valgrind output will go to the usual stderr channel for tests (i.e., /dev/null, unless -v has been specified). If you need to pass options to valgrind -- you might want to run another tool than memcheck, for example -- you can set the environment variable GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS. A few default suppressions are included, since libz seems to trigger quite a few false positives. We'll assume that libz works and that we can ignore any errors which are reported there. Note: it is safe to run the valgrind tests in parallel, as the links in t/valgrind/bin/ are created using proper locking. Initial patch and all the hard work by Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03tests: fix test_commit() for case insensitive filesystemsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Brian Gernhardt noticed that t3411 was broken recently on case insensitive filesystems. 0088496 (test-lib.sh: introduce test_commit() and test_merge() helpers, 2009-01-27) used a tag and a file with the same name, only different in case, and converted many existing tests that needed only a file (or a tag). Some tests may want to refer to a rev or a file, but on a filesystem that loses cases, referring to either without disambiguation mark ("--") on the command line now triggers an error (t3411 was the only one such test). Fix it by using a filename that is different from the tagname each step creates. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-28test-lib.sh: introduce test_commit() and test_merge() helpersLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+25
Often we just need to add a commit with a given (short) name, that will be tagged with the same name. Now, relatively complicated graphs can be constructed easily and in a clear fashion: test_commit A && test_commit B && git checkout A && test_commit C && test_merge D B will construct this graph: A - B \ \ C - D For simplicity, files whose name is the lower case version of the commit message (to avoid a warning about ambiguous names) will be committed, with the corresponding commit messages as contents. If you need to provide a different file/different contents, you can use the more explicit form test_commit $MESSAGE $FILENAME $CONTENTS Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-19use uppercase POSIX compliant signals for the 'trap' commandLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-5/+5
In 'man 1p trap' there is written: "Implementations may permit names with the SIG prefix or ignore case in signal names as an extension." So change the lowercase signals to uppercase, which is POSIX compliant instead of being an extension. There wasn't anybody claiming that it doesn't work, but there was a bug with using a signal with the SIG prefix, which is an extension as well. So let's play it safe and change it, since it doesn't hurt anyone. While at it, also convert 8 indentation spaces to 1 tab character. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-14Get rid of the last remnants of GIT_CONFIG_LOCALLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+0
In dc871831(Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs), GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL was rested in peace, in favor of not reading /etc/gitconfig and $HOME/.gitconfig at all when GIT_CONFIG is set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-12Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
* maint: test-lib: fix broken printf git apply --directory broken for new files
2008-10-12test-lib: fix broken printfLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
b8eecafd888d219633f4c29e8b6a90fc21a46dfd introduced usage of printf without a format string. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-10Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+2
* maint: rebase -i: do not fail when there is no commit to cherry-pick test-lib: fix color reset in say_color() fix pread()'s short read in index-pack Conflicts: csum-file.c
2008-10-10test-lib: fix color reset in say_color()Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+2
When executing a single test with colors enabled, the cursor was not set back to the previous one, and you had to hit an extra enter to get it back. Work around this problem by calling 'tput sgr0' before printing the final newline. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-08-21test-lib: do not remove trash_directory if called with --debugLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
Sometimes you want to keep the trash directory, even if all tests passed. For example, when extending tests, it comes it quite handy. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-20Merge branch 'jc/test-deeper'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jc/test-deeper: tests: use $TEST_DIRECTORY to refer to the t/ directory
2008-08-17tests: use $TEST_DIRECTORY to refer to the t/ directoryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Many test scripts assumed that they will start in a 'trash' subdirectory that is a single level down from the t/ directory, and referred to their test vector files by asking for files like "../t9999/expect". This will break if we move the 'trash' subdirectory elsewhere. To solve this, we earlier introduced "$TEST_DIRECTORY" so that they can refer to t/ directory reliably. This finally makes all the tests use it to refer to the outside environment. With this patch, and a one-liner not included here (because it would contradict with what Dscho really wants to do): | diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh | index 70ea7e0..60e69e4 100644 | --- a/t/test-lib.sh | +++ b/t/test-lib.sh | @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ fi | . ../GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS | | # Test repository | -test="trash directory" | +test="trash directory/another level/yet another" | rm -fr "$test" || { | trap - exit | echo >&5 "FATAL: Cannot prepare test area" all the tests still pass, but we would want extra sets of eyeballs on this type of change to really make sure. [jc: with help from Stephan Beyer on http-push tests I do not run myself; credits for locating silly quoting errors go to Olivier Marin.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08Enable parallel testsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+7
On multiprocessor machines, or with I/O heavy tests (that leave the CPU waiting a lot), it makes sense to parallelize the tests. However, care has to be taken that the different jobs use different trash directories. This commit does so, by creating the trash directories with a suffix that is unique with regard to the test, as it is the test's base name. Further, the trash directory is removed in the test itself if everything went fine, so that the trash directories do not pile up only to be removed at the very end. If a test failed, the trash directory is not removed. Chances are that the exact error message is lost in the clutter, but you can still see what test failed from the name of the trash directory, and repeat the test (without -j). If all was good, you will see the aggregated results. Suggestions to simplify this commit came from Junio and René. There still is an issue with tests that want to run a server process and listen to a fixed port (http and svn) --- they cannot run in parallel but this patch does not address this issue. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13t/test-lib.sh: exit with small negagive int is ok with test_must_failLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-1/+1
The test_must_fail function in test-lib.sh has been designed to distinguish segmentation faults from controlled errors. But in the current implementation this only works if a git command does not return a small negative value, like -1, -2 or -3. But some git commands do. Because any signal (like SIGSEGV) will result in an exit status less than 193, this patch just adds a further check for the exit status. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-07Merge branch 'dr/ceiling'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* dr/ceiling: Eliminate an unnecessary chdir("..") Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES Fold test-absolute-path into test-path-utils Implement normalize_absolute_path Conflicts: cache.h setup.c
2008-06-26test-lib.sh: show git init output when in verbose modeLibravatar Lea Wiemann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25Merge branch 'sr/tests'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+14
* sr/tests: Hook up the result aggregation in the test makefile. A simple script to parse the results from the testcases Modify test-lib.sh to output stats to t/test-results/* Conflicts: t/test-lib.sh
2008-06-25Merge branch 'lw/perlish'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+58
* lw/perlish: Git.pm: add test suite t/test-lib.sh: add test_external and test_external_without_stderr
2008-06-19t/test-lib.sh: add test_external and test_external_without_stderrLibravatar Lea Wiemann1-0/+58
This is for running external test scripts in other programming languages that provide continuous output about their tests. Using test_expect_success (like "test_expect_success 'description' 'perl test-script.pl'") doesn't suffice here because test_expect_success eats stdout in non-verbose mode, which is not fixable without major file descriptor trickery. Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19test-lib.sh: add --long-tests optionLibravatar Lea Wiemann1-0/+2
Add a --long-tests option to test-lib.sh, which enables tests to selectively run more exhaustive (longer running, potentially brute-force) tests. Such exhaustive tests would only be useful if one works on the specific module that is being tested -- for a general "cd t/; make" to check whether everything is OK, such exhaustive tests shouldn't be run by default since the longer it takes to run the tests, the less often they are actually run. Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-14Use 'trash directory' thoroughly in t/test-lib.shLibravatar Jakub Narebski1-1/+1
...also in comments. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-12t/.gitattributes: only ignore whitespace errors in test filesLibravatar Lea Wiemann1-1/+1
Only ignore whitespace errors in t/tNNNN-*.sh and the t/tNNNN subdirectories. Other files (like test libraries) should still be checked. Also fix a whitespace error in t/test-lib.sh. Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08Modify test-lib.sh to output stats to t/test-results/*Libravatar Sverre Rabbelier1-1/+14
This change is needed order to aggregate data on the test run later on. Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-31t/test-lib.sh: resolve symlinks in working directory, for pathname comparisonsLibravatar Lea Wiemann1-1/+3
Without this, some tests will fail because they compare command output of subprocesses (such as git) with $PWD -- but subprocesses have the physical path as their working directory, whereas $PWD contains the symlinked path. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-23Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIESLibravatar David Reiss1-0/+1
Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR. Useful for avoiding slow network directories. For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds. Setting GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and "git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time. Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-18t/Makefile: "trash" directory was renamed recentlyLibravatar Brandon Casey1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-18Ensure that a test is run in the trash directoryLibravatar Alex Riesen1-1/+1
Exit with error if cd into the "trash directory" failed (error already reported, so just exit). Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05Rename the test trash directory to contain spaces.Libravatar Bryan Donlan1-2/+2
In order to help prevent regressions in the future, rename the trash directory for all tests to contain spaces. This patch also corrects two failures that were caused or exposed by this change. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05test-lib.sh: Fix some missing path quotingLibravatar Bryan Donlan1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05test-lib.sh: Add a test_set_editor function to safely set $VISUALLibravatar Bryan Donlan1-0/+16
In particular, this function correctly handles cases where the pwd contains spaces, quotes, and other troublesome metacharacters. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-27test_must_fail: 129 is a valid error code from usage()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When a git command is run under test_must_fail to make sure that the argument parser catches bogus command line, it exits with 129. We need to catch it as a valid "graceful error exit". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-18Test: catch if trash cannot be removedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
When your test creates an unwritable directory that test framework cannot clean out by "rm -fr trash", later tests cannot start in a fresh state they expect to. Detect this and error out early. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-13add test_cmp function for test scriptsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+18
Many scripts compare actual and expected output using "diff -u". This is nicer than "cmp" because the output shows how the two differ. However, not all versions of diff understand -u, leading to unnecessary test failure. This adds a test_cmp function to the test scripts and switches all "diff -u" invocations to use it. The function uses the contents of "$GIT_TEST_CMP" to compare its arguments; the default is "diff -u". On systems with a less-capable diff, you can do: GIT_TEST_CMP=cmp make test Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-07Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+17
* maint: unquote_c_style: fix off-by-one. test-lib: fix TERM to dumb for test repeatability config.txt: refer to --upload-pack and --receive-pack instead of --exec git-gui: Gracefully fall back to po2msg.sh if msgfmt --tcl fails
2008-03-07test-lib: fix TERM to dumb for test repeatabilityLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+17
Dscho noticed that Term::ReadLine (used by send-email) colorized its output for his TERM settings, inside t9001 tests. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02tests: introduce test_must_failLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
When we expect a git command to notice and signal errors, we carelessly wrote in our tests: test_expect_success 'reject bogus request' ' do something && do something else && ! git command ' but a non-zero exit could come from the "git command" segfaulting. A new helper function "tset_must_fail" is introduced and it is meant to be used to make sure the command gracefully fails (iow, dying and exiting with non zero status is counted as a failure to "gracefully fail"). The above example should be written as: test_expect_success 'reject bogus request' ' do something && do something else && test_must_fail git command ' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02Merge branch 'cb/http-test'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
* cb/http-test: http-push: add regression tests http-push: push <remote> :<branch> deletes remote branch
2008-02-29use build-time SHELL_PATH in test scriptsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+2
The top-level Makefile now creates a GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS file which stores any options selected by the make process that may be of use to further parts of the build process. Specifically, we store the SHELL_PATH so that it can be used by tests to construct shell scripts on the fly. The format of the GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS file is Bourne shell, and it is sourced by test-lib.sh; all tests can rely on just having $SHELL_PATH correctly set in the environment. The GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS file is written every time the toplevel 'make' is invoked. Since the only users right now are the test scripts, there's no drawback to updating its timestamp. If something build-related depends on this, we can do a trick similar to the one used by GIT-CFLAGS. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-29tests: introduce test_must_failLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
When we expect a git command to notice and signal errors, we carelessly wrote in our tests: test_expect_success 'reject bogus request' ' do something && do something else && ! git command ' but a non-zero exit could come from the "git command" segfaulting. A new helper function "tset_must_fail" is introduced and it is meant to be used to make sure the command gracefully fails (iow, dying and exiting with non zero status is counted as a failure to "gracefully fail"). The above example should be written as: test_expect_success 'reject bogus request' ' do something && do something else && test_must_fail git command ' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27http-push: add regression testsLibravatar Clemens Buchacher1-2/+7
http-push tests require a web server with WebDAV support. This commit introduces a HTTPD test library, which can be configured using the following environment variables. GIT_TEST_HTTPD enable HTTPD tests LIB_HTTPD_PATH web server path LIB_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH web server modules path LIB_HTTPD_PORT listening port LIB_HTTPD_DAV enable DAV LIB_HTTPD_SVN enable SVN LIB_HTTPD_SSL enable SSL Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06fix config reading in testsLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+5
Previously, we set the GIT_CONFIG environment variable in our tests so that only that file was read. However, setting it to a static value is not correct, since we are not necessarily always in the same directory; instead, we want the usual git config file lookup to happen. To do this, we stop setting GIT_CONFIG, which means that we must now suppress the reading of the system-wide and user configs. This exposes an incorrect test in t1500, which is also fixed (the incorrect test worked because we were failing to read the core.bare value from the config file, since the GIT_CONFIG variable was pointing us to the wrong file). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-03test: reword the final message of tests with known breakagesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
When we have known breakages, we still said "passed all N test(s)", which was a bit funny. This rewords it to read "passed all remaining N test(s)" in such a case. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-01Sane use of test_expect_failureLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+26
Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision. Most tests run a series of commands that leads to the single command that needs to be tested, like this: test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' ' setup1 && setup2 && setup3 && what is to be tested ' And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the point of writing tests. Your setup$N that are supposed to succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are trying to test. The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands. This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is tested, like this: test_expect_success 'test title' ' setup1 && setup2 && setup3 && ! this command should fail ' test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it currently does not pass. So if git-foo command should create a file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can write a test like this: test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' ' rm -f bar && git foo && test -f bar ' This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>