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--debug::
This may help the person who is developing a new test.
It causes the command defined with test_debug to run.
+ The "trash" directory (used to store all temporary data
+ during testing) is not deleted even if there are no
+ failed tests so that you can inspect its contents after
+ the test finished.
--immediate::
This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first
- test_expect_success [<prereq>] <message> <script>
- Usually takes two strings as parameter, and evaluates the
+ Usually takes two strings as parameters, and evaluates the
<script>. If it yields success, test is considered
successful. <message> should state what it is testing.
'tree=$(git-write-tree)'
If you supply three parameters the first will be taken to be a
- prerequisite, see the test_set_prereq and test_have_prereq
+ prerequisite; see the test_set_prereq and test_have_prereq
documentation below:
test_expect_success TTY 'git --paginate rev-list uses a pager' \
Merges the given rev using the given message. Like test_commit,
creates a tag and calls test_tick before committing.
- - test_set_prereq SOME_PREREQ
+ - test_set_prereq <prereq>
Set a test prerequisite to be used later with test_have_prereq. The
test-lib will set some prerequisites for you, see the
test_have_prereq directly, or the three argument invocation of
test_expect_success and test_expect_failure.
- - test_have_prereq SOME PREREQ
+ - test_have_prereq <prereq>
Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with
test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip
Check whether a file has the length it is expected to.
- - test_path_is_file <file> [<diagnosis>]
- test_path_is_dir <dir> [<diagnosis>]
+ - test_path_is_file <path> [<diagnosis>]
+ test_path_is_dir <path> [<diagnosis>]
test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>]
- Check whether a file/directory exists or doesn't. <diagnosis> will
- be displayed if the test fails.
+ Check if the named path is a file, if the named path is a
+ directory, or if the named path does not exist, respectively,
+ and fail otherwise, showing the <diagnosis> text.
- test_when_finished <script>
Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an
unwritable file is expected to fail correctly.
+ - LIBPCRE
+
+ Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests
+ that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these.
+
Tips for Writing Tests
----------------------
That'll generate a detailed cover report in the "cover_db_html"
directory, which you can then copy to a webserver, or inspect locally
in a browser.
-
-Smoke testing
--------------
-
-The Git test suite has support for smoke testing. Smoke testing is
-when you submit the results of a test run to a central server for
-analysis and aggregation.
-
-Running a smoke tester is an easy and valuable way of contributing to
-Git development, particularly if you have access to an uncommon OS on
-obscure hardware.
-
-After building Git you can generate a smoke report like this in the
-"t" directory:
-
- make clean smoke
-
-You can also pass arguments via the environment. This should make it
-faster:
-
- GIT_TEST_OPTS='--root=/dev/shm' TEST_JOBS=10 make clean smoke
-
-The "smoke" target will run the Git test suite with Perl's
-"TAP::Harness" module, and package up the results in a .tar.gz archive
-with "TAP::Harness::Archive". The former is included with Perl v5.10.1
-or later, but you'll need to install the latter from the CPAN. See the
-"Test coverage" section above for how you might do that.
-
-Once the "smoke" target finishes you'll see a message like this:
-
- TAP Archive created at <path to git>/t/test-results/git-smoke.tar.gz
-
-To upload the smoke report you need to have curl(1) installed, then
-do:
-
- make smoke_report
-
-To upload the report anonymously. Hopefully that'll return something
-like "Reported #7 added.".
-
-If you're going to be uploading reports frequently please request a
-user account by E-Mailing gitsmoke@v.nix.is. Once you have a username
-and password you'll be able to do:
-
- SMOKE_USERNAME=<username> SMOKE_PASSWORD=<password> make smoke_report
-
-You can also add an additional comment to attach to the report, and/or
-a comma separated list of tags:
-
- SMOKE_USERNAME=<username> SMOKE_PASSWORD=<password> \
- SMOKE_COMMENT=<comment> SMOKE_TAGS=<tags> \
- make smoke_report
-
-Once the report is uploaded it'll be made available at
-http://smoke.git.nix.is, here's an overview of Recent Smoke Reports
-for Git:
-
- http://smoke.git.nix.is/app/projects/smoke_reports/1
-
-The reports will also be mirrored to GitHub every few hours:
-
- http://github.com/gitsmoke/smoke-reports
-
-The Smolder SQLite database is also mirrored and made available for
-download:
-
- http://github.com/gitsmoke/smoke-database
-
-Note that the database includes hashed (with crypt()) user passwords
-and E-Mail addresses. Don't use a valuable password for the smoke
-service if you have an account, or an E-Mail address you don't want to
-be publicly known. The user accounts are just meant to be convenient
-labels, they're not meant to be secure.