From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
To: "Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks•im>, git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: "Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail•com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>,
"Karthik Nayak" <karthik.188@gmail•com>,
"Ramsay Jones" <ramsay@ramsayjones•plus.com>,
"Eli Schwartz" <eschwartz@gentoo•org>,
"Todd Zullinger" <tmz@pobox•com>,
"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] t7815: fix unexpectedly passing test on macOS
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:19:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7583b751-5380-41b8-8353-bba2618a0bad@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250530-pks-meson-tap-v3-7-676f5e41f2e4@pks.im>
On Fri, May 30, 2025, at 15:31, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> In t7815, we have the following test:
>
> test_expect_failure !CYGWIN 'git grep .fi a' '
> git grep .fi a
> '
>
> The test passes if '.' matches a NUL byte, which we expect to only
> happen on Cygwin. The upcoming changes to support parsing TAP output in
> Meson surface that this test is also unexpectedly passing on macOS
> though.
This last sentence was difficult for me when I first read it. It seems
that there are multiple verb tenses and it has many words without any
pauses. Maybe consider restructuring with some comma breaks or
something.
The upcoming changes to support parsing TAP output in Meson is
showing that this test, suprisingly, passes on macOS as well.
> It is unclear how long the test has been passing on macOS already.
> 064eed36c7f (config.mak.uname: only set NO_REGEX on cygwin for v1.7,
> 2025-04-17) mentions that the test started to pass for Cygwin once it
> has imported a newer implementation of
“started to pass” followed by “has imported” doesn’t sound right.
> regcomp(3p) et all, which was
s/et all,/et al.,/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-01 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-06 10:59 [PATCH 0/4] meson: parse TAP output generated by our tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 10:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] t: fix cases where output breaks TAP format Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 13:17 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-07 6:52 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-07 10:12 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-14 18:51 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-06 10:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] t/test-lib: don't print shell traces to stdout Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 10:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] meson: introduce kwargs variable for tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-15 7:39 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-06 10:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] meson: parse TAP output generated by our tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-15 7:48 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-15 8:20 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-15 11:35 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-06 12:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-07 7:06 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-21 10:57 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-21 11:56 ` Hridoy Ahmed
2025-05-21 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-21 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-23 10:03 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-23 15:00 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-23 15:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-23 16:40 ` Ramsay Jones
2025-05-23 16:53 ` Ramsay Jones
2025-05-23 19:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-26 12:44 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-26 13:31 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-26 14:23 ` Todd Zullinger
2025-05-26 13:54 ` Eli Schwartz
2025-05-26 13:59 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 16:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-28 12:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 13:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] t: fix cases where output breaks TAP format Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 19:47 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-05-28 15:55 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-28 20:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-05-30 7:50 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] t/test-lib: don't print shell traces to stdout Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 19:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-28 15:55 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] t/test-lib: fix TAP format for BASH_XTRACEFD warning Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] t7815: fix unexpectedly passing test on macOS Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] meson: introduce kwargs variable for tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-27 14:02 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] meson: parse TAP output generated by our tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] t: stop announcing prereqs Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-31 21:00 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] t: silence output from `test_create_repo()` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 21:16 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] t9822: use prereq to check for ISO-8859-1 support Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] t983*: use prereq to check for Python-specific git-b4(1) support Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 14:08 ` Todd Zullinger
2025-05-30 14:21 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] t/test-lib: don't print shell traces to stdout Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-31 21:21 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] t/test-lib: fix TAP format for BASH_XTRACEFD warning Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-31 21:25 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] t7815: fix unexpectedly passing test on macOS Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-31 21:28 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-01 9:19 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2025-06-02 6:19 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] test-lib: fail on unexpectedly passing tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] meson: introduce kwargs variable for tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-30 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] meson: parse TAP output generated by our tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-31 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] " Karthik Nayak
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] t: stop announcing prereqs Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] t: silence output from `test_create_repo()` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] t9822: use prereq to check for ISO-8859-1 support Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] t983*: use prereq to check for Python-specific git-p4(1) support Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] t/test-lib: don't print shell traces to stdout Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] t/test-lib: fix TAP format for BASH_XTRACEFD warning Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] t7815: fix unexpectedly passing test on macOS Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] test-lib: fail on unexpectedly passing tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] meson: introduce kwargs variable for tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 6:44 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] meson: parse TAP output generated by our tests Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-02 7:40 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] " Karthik Nayak
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