Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0051: use "skip_all" under !MINGW in single-test file

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:48:05 -0800

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <[email-masked]> writes:

> Have this file added in 06ba9d03e34 (t0051: test GIT_TRACE to a
> windows named pipe, 2018-09-11) use the same "skip_all" pattern as an
> existing Windows-only test added in 0e218f91c29 (mingw: unset PERL5LIB
> by default, 2018-10-30) uses.
>
> This way TAP consumers like "prove" will show a nice summary when the
> test is skipped, e.g.:

... as opposed to?  A failure?  A different appearance of the log
message?  Something else?

>
>     $ prove t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh
>     [...]
>     t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh ... skipped: skipping Windows-specific tests
>     [...]
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
> ---
>
> A trivial UX improvement for the "prove" output, so that we'll show a
> notice in the same way as e.g. t0029-core-unsetenvvars.sh and
> t5580-unc-paths.sh do (which are both Windows-specific).
>
>  t/t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh b/t/t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh
> index 10ac92d2250..412f413360d 100755
> --- a/t/t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh
> +++ b/t/t0051-windows-named-pipe.sh
> @@ -3,8 +3,13 @@
>  test_description='Windows named pipes'
>  
>  . ./test-lib.sh
> +if ! test_have_prereq MINGW
> +then
> +	skip_all='skipping Windows-specific tests'
> +	test_done
> +fi
>  
> -test_expect_success MINGW 'o_append write to named pipe' '
> +test_expect_success 'o_append write to named pipe' '
>  	GIT_TRACE="$(pwd)/expect" git status >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
>  	{ test-tool windows-named-pipe t0051 >actual 2>&1 & } &&
>  	pid=$! &&