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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Lasse Makholm <lasse.makholm@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t0003: do not chdir the whole test process
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:26:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd2j0x78w.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140206203101.GX30398@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:31:01 -0800")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:

> For a while I've been wanting to teach GIT_SKIP_TESTS not to skip
> tests with 'setup' or 'set up' in their name, but I never got around
> to it.

Yeah, that would be a good thing.  As part of doing so, we might
want to come up with a way to test the tests, randomly skipping
pieces that are not "setup" and find ones that break the later tests
when skipped, and mark test scripts that fail such a test for fixing.

> If I try to skip the setup test this patch touches, then there
> is no bare.git and lots of later tests fail.  Perhaps it would be
> better for each test to do
>
> 	rm -fr bare.git &&
> 	git clone --bare . bare.git &&
> 	(
> 		cd bare.git &&
> 		...
> 	)
>
> for itself to make the state easier to think about.

That is a better and worse way to do it at the same time ;-)  It
definitely is better from maintainability POV to keep each test as
independent as possible.  It however also is worse if it forces us
to be repetitive X-<.

> On the other hand I agree that the 'cd' here is a bad practice.  I
> just don't think it's about skipping setup --- instead, it's about it
> being hard to remember the cwd in general.

Exactly.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-06 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 12:48 attr.c doesn't honor --work-tree option Lasse Makholm
2014-02-06 17:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-06 18:40   ` [PATCH 1/2] t0003: do not chdir the whole test process Junio C Hamano
2014-02-06 18:40     ` [PATCH 2/2] check-attr: move to the top of working tree when in non-bare repository Junio C Hamano
2014-02-06 19:53       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-06 20:17         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-06 20:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-16 11:15           ` Michael Haggerty
2014-02-06 19:45     ` [PATCH 1/2] t0003: do not chdir the whole test process Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-06 20:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-06 20:31         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-06 21:26           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-02-10 12:57   ` attr.c doesn't honor --work-tree option Lasse Makholm

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