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diff --git a/third_party/git/t/README b/third_party/git/t/README deleted file mode 100644 index 60d5b77bcc..0000000000 --- a/third_party/git/t/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1128 +0,0 @@ -Core GIT Tests -============== - -This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The -first part of this short document describes how to run the tests -and read their output. - -When fixing the tools or adding enhancements, you are strongly -encouraged to add tests in this directory to cover what you are -trying to fix or enhance. The later part of this short document -describes how your test scripts should be organized. - - -Running Tests -------------- - -The easiest way to run tests is to say "make". This runs all -the tests. - - *** t0000-basic.sh *** - ok 1 - .git/objects should be empty after git init in an empty repo. - ok 2 - .git/objects should have 3 subdirectories. - ok 3 - success is reported like this - ... - ok 43 - very long name in the index handled sanely - # fixed 1 known breakage(s) - # still have 1 known breakage(s) - # passed all remaining 42 test(s) - 1..43 - *** t0001-init.sh *** - ok 1 - plain - ok 2 - plain with GIT_WORK_TREE - ok 3 - plain bare - -Since the tests all output TAP (see http://testanything.org) they can -be run with any TAP harness. Here's an example of parallel testing -powered by a recent version of prove(1): - - $ prove --timer --jobs 15 ./t[0-9]*.sh - [19:17:33] ./t0005-signals.sh ................................... ok 36 ms - [19:17:33] ./t0022-crlf-rename.sh ............................... ok 69 ms - [19:17:33] ./t0024-crlf-archive.sh .............................. ok 154 ms - [19:17:33] ./t0004-unwritable.sh ................................ ok 289 ms - [19:17:33] ./t0002-gitfile.sh ................................... ok 480 ms - ===( 102;0 25/? 6/? 5/? 16/? 1/? 4/? 2/? 1/? 3/? 1... )=== - -prove and other harnesses come with a lot of useful options. The ---state option in particular is very useful: - - # Repeat until no more failures - $ prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh - -You can give DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove on the make command (or define it -in config.mak) to cause "make test" to run tests under prove. -GIT_PROVE_OPTS can be used to pass additional options, e.g. - - $ make DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS='--timer --jobs 16' test - -You can also run each test individually from command line, like this: - - $ sh ./t3010-ls-files-killed-modified.sh - ok 1 - git update-index --add to add various paths. - ok 2 - git ls-files -k to show killed files. - ok 3 - validate git ls-files -k output. - ok 4 - git ls-files -m to show modified files. - ok 5 - validate git ls-files -m output. - # passed all 5 test(s) - 1..5 - -You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate -(or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS -appropriately before running "make". - --v:: ---verbose:: - This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the - command being run and their output if any are also - output. - ---verbose-only=<pattern>:: - Like --verbose, but the effect is limited to tests with - numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is - simply the running count of the test within the file. - --x:: - Turn on shell tracing (i.e., `set -x`) during the tests - themselves. Implies `--verbose`. - Ignored in test scripts that set the variable 'test_untraceable' - to a non-empty value, unless it's run with a Bash version - supporting BASH_XTRACEFD, i.e. v4.1 or later. - --d:: ---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. - --i:: ---immediate:: - This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first - failed test. Cleanup commands requested with - test_when_finished are not executed if the test failed, - in order to keep the state for inspection by the tester - to diagnose the bug. - --l:: ---long-tests:: - This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where - available), for more exhaustive testing. - --r:: ---run=<test-selector>:: - Run only the subset of tests indicated by - <test-selector>. See section "Skipping Tests" below for - <test-selector> syntax. - ---valgrind=<tool>:: - Execute all Git binaries under valgrind tool <tool> and exit - with status 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will - only stop the test script when running under -i). - - Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and - not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For - convenience, it also implies --tee. - - <tool> defaults to 'memcheck', just like valgrind itself. - Other particularly useful choices include 'helgrind' and - 'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind - installation. - - As a special case, <tool> can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses - memcheck but disables --track-origins. Use this if you are - running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory - issues. - - Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no, - as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not - interesting. In order to run a single command under the same - conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to - the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under - 't/valgrind/bin/'. - ---valgrind-only=<pattern>:: - Like --valgrind, but the effect is limited to tests with - numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is - simply the running count of the test within the file. - ---tee:: - In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, - write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. - As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to - run the tests with this option in parallel. - --V:: ---verbose-log:: - Write verbose output to the same logfile as `--tee`, but do - _not_ write it to stdout. Unlike `--tee --verbose`, this option - is safe to use when stdout is being consumed by a TAP parser - like `prove`. Implies `--tee` and `--verbose`. - ---with-dashes:: - By default tests are run without dashed forms of - commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses - wrappers from ../bin-wrappers). Use this option to include - the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all - the dashed forms of commands. This option is currently - implied by other options like --valgrind and - GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. - ---no-bin-wrappers:: - By default, the test suite uses the wrappers in - `../bin-wrappers/` to execute `git` and friends. With this option, - `../git` and friends are run directly. This is not recommended - in general, as the wrappers contain safeguards to ensure that no - files from an installed Git are used, but can speed up test runs - especially on platforms where running shell scripts is expensive - (most notably, Windows). - ---root=<directory>:: - Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during - testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory. - Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) - can massively speed up the test suite. - ---chain-lint:: ---no-chain-lint:: - If --chain-lint is enabled, the test harness will check each - test to make sure that it properly "&&-chains" all commands (so - that a failure in the middle does not go unnoticed by the final - exit code of the test). This check is performed in addition to - running the tests themselves. You may also enable or disable - this feature by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT environment - variable to "1" or "0", respectively. - ---stress:: - Run the test script repeatedly in multiple parallel jobs until - one of them fails. Useful for reproducing rare failures in - flaky tests. The number of parallel jobs is, in order of - precedence: the value of the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD - environment variable, or twice the number of available - processors (as shown by the 'getconf' utility), or 8. - Implies `--verbose -x --immediate` to get the most information - about the failure. Note that the verbose output of each test - job is saved to 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.stress-<nr>.out', - and only the output of the failed test job is shown on the - terminal. The names of the trash directories get a - '.stress-<nr>' suffix, and the trash directory of the failed - test job is renamed to end with a '.stress-failed' suffix. - ---stress-jobs=<N>:: - Override the number of parallel jobs. Implies `--stress`. - ---stress-limit=<N>:: - When combined with --stress run the test script repeatedly - this many times in each of the parallel jobs or until one of - them fails, whichever comes first. Implies `--stress`. - -You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to -the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. -You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various -test-* support programs, templates, and perl libraries are used. -If your installed git is incomplete, it will silently test parts of -your built version instead. - -When using GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, you can also set GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH to -override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what -GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation). -GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`. - - -Skipping Tests --------------- - -In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding -due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or -filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes -as pathnames. - -You should be able to say something like - - $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh - -and even: - - $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make - -to omit such tests. The value of the environment variable is a -SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip, -and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole -test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which -particular test to skip. - -For an individual test suite --run could be used to specify that -only some tests should be run or that some tests should be -excluded from a run. - -The argument for --run is a list of individual test numbers or -ranges with an optional negation prefix that define what tests in -a test suite to include in the run. A range is two numbers -separated with a dash and matches a range of tests with both ends -been included. You may omit the first or the second number to -mean "from the first test" or "up to the very last test" -respectively. - -Optional prefix of '!' means that the test or a range of tests -should be excluded from the run. - -If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range the initial -set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!' -all the tests are added to the initial set. After initial set is -determined every test number or range is added or excluded from -the set one by one, from left to right. - -Individual numbers or ranges could be separated either by a space -or a comma. - -For example, to run only tests up to a specific test (21), one -could do this: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-21' - -or this: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-21' - -Common case is to run several setup tests (1, 2, 3) and then a -specific test (21) that relies on that setup: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1 2 3 21' - -or: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run=1,2,3,21 - -or: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-3 21' - -As noted above, the test set is built by going through the items -from left to right, so this: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-4 !3' - -will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that come later have higher -precedence. It means that this: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!3 1-4' - -would just run tests from 1 to 4, including 3. - -You may use negation with ranges. The following will run all -test in the test suite except from 7 up to 11: - - $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!7-11' - -Some tests in a test suite rely on the previous tests performing -certain actions, specifically some tests are designated as -"setup" test, so you cannot _arbitrarily_ disable one test and -expect the rest to function correctly. - ---run is mostly useful when you want to focus on a specific test -and know what setup is needed for it. Or when you want to run -everything up to a certain test. - - -Running tests with special setups ---------------------------------- - -The whole test suite could be run to test some special features -that cannot be easily covered by a few specific test cases. These -could be enabled by running the test suite with correct GIT_TEST_ -environment set. - -GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS=<boolean> fails all prerequisites. This is -useful for discovering issues with the tests where say a later test -implicitly depends on an optional earlier test. - -There's a "FAIL_PREREQS" prerequisite that can be used to test for -whether this mode is active, and e.g. skip some tests that are hard to -refactor to deal with it. The "SYMLINKS" prerequisite is currently -excluded as so much relies on it, but this might change in the future. - -GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=<boolean> turns all strings marked for -translation into gibberish if true. Used for spotting those tests that -need to be marked with a C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prerequisite when adding more -strings for translation. See "Testing marked strings" in po/README for -details. - -GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=<boolean> forces split-index mode on the whole -test suite. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. - -GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=<n>, when set, overrides the -'protocol.version' setting to n if it is less than n. - -GIT_TEST_FULL_IN_PACK_ARRAY=<boolean> exercises the uncommon -pack-objects code path where there are more than 1024 packs even if -the actual number of packs in repository is below this limit. Accept -any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. - -GIT_TEST_OE_SIZE=<n> exercises the uncommon pack-objects code path -where we do not cache object size in memory and read it from existing -packs on demand. This normally only happens when the object size is -over 2GB. This variable forces the code path on any object larger than -<n> bytes. - -GIT_TEST_OE_DELTA_SIZE=<n> exercises the uncommon pack-objects code -path where deltas larger than this limit require extra memory -allocation for bookkeeping. - -GIT_TEST_VALIDATE_INDEX_CACHE_ENTRIES=<boolean> checks that cache-tree -records are valid when the index is written out or after a merge. This -is mostly to catch missing invalidation. Default is true. - -GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH=<boolean>, when true, forces the commit-graph to -be written after every 'git commit' command, and overrides the -'core.commitGraph' setting to true. - -GIT_TEST_FSMONITOR=$PWD/t7519/fsmonitor-all exercises the fsmonitor -code path for utilizing a file system monitor to speed up detecting -new or changed files. - -GIT_TEST_INDEX_VERSION=<n> exercises the index read/write code path -for the index version specified. Can be set to any valid version -(currently 2, 3, or 4). - -GIT_TEST_PACK_SPARSE=<boolean> if enabled will default the pack-objects -builtin to use the sparse object walk. This can still be overridden by -the --no-sparse command-line argument. - -GIT_TEST_PRELOAD_INDEX=<boolean> exercises the preload-index code path -by overriding the minimum number of cache entries required per thread. - -GIT_TEST_STASH_USE_BUILTIN=<boolean>, when false, disables the -built-in version of git-stash. See 'stash.useBuiltin' in -git-config(1). - -GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> enables exercising the multi-threaded loading -of the index for the whole test suite by bypassing the default number of -cache entries and thread minimums. Setting this to 1 will make the -index loading single threaded. - -GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=<boolean>, when true, forces the multi-pack- -index to be written after every 'git repack' command, and overrides the -'core.multiPackIndex' setting to true. - -GIT_TEST_SIDEBAND_ALL=<boolean>, when true, overrides the -'uploadpack.allowSidebandAll' setting to true, and when false, forces -fetch-pack to not request sideband-all (even if the server advertises -sideband-all). - -GIT_TEST_DISALLOW_ABBREVIATED_OPTIONS=<boolean>, when true (which is -the default when running tests), errors out when an abbreviated option -is used. - -Naming Tests ------------- - -The test files are named as: - - tNNNN-commandname-details.sh - -where N is a decimal digit. - -First digit tells the family: - - 0 - the absolute basics and global stuff - 1 - the basic commands concerning database - 2 - the basic commands concerning the working tree - 3 - the other basic commands (e.g. ls-files) - 4 - the diff commands - 5 - the pull and exporting commands - 6 - the revision tree commands (even e.g. merge-base) - 7 - the porcelainish commands concerning the working tree - 8 - the porcelainish commands concerning forensics - 9 - the git tools - -Second digit tells the particular command we are testing. - -Third digit (optionally) tells the particular switch or group of switches -we are testing. - -If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not -the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above -pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the -top-level test script and tries to run all of them. Care is -especially needed if you are creating a common test library -file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may -not be suitable for standalone execution. - - -Writing Tests -------------- - -The test script is written as a shell script. It should start -with the standard "#!/bin/sh", and an -assignment to variable 'test_description', like this: - - #!/bin/sh - - test_description='xxx test (option --frotz) - - This test registers the following structure in the cache - and tries to run git-ls-files with option --frotz.' - - -Source 'test-lib.sh' --------------------- - -After assigning test_description, the test script should source -test-lib.sh like this: - - . ./test-lib.sh - -This test harness library does the following things: - - - If the script is invoked with command line argument --help - (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits. - - - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database - and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash - directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by - the --root option documented above, and a '.stress-<N>' suffix - appended by the --stress option. - - - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to - use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave - consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), - --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. - -Do's & don'ts -------------- - -Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do -when writing tests. - -Here are the "do's:" - - - Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions. - - Even code that isn't a test per se, but merely some setup code - should be inside a test assertion. - - - Chain your test assertions - - Write test code like this: - - git merge foo && - git push bar && - test ... - - Instead of: - - git merge hla - git push gh - test ... - - That way all of the commands in your tests will succeed or fail. If - you must ignore the return value of something, consider using a - helper function (e.g. use sane_unset instead of unset, in order - to avoid unportable return value for unsetting a variable that was - already unset), or prepending the command with test_might_fail or - test_must_fail. - - - Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage" - below. - - Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics; if a new function you added - doesn't have any coverage, then you're probably doing something wrong, - but having 100% coverage doesn't necessarily mean that you tested - everything. - - Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better - than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics. - - - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated, - construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD, - $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on - Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. - For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. - - - Remember that inside the <script> part, the standard output and - standard error streams are discarded, and the test harness only - reports "ok" or "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under - --verbose, they are shown to help debug the tests. - -And here are the "don'ts:" - - - Don't exit() within a <script> part. - - The harness will catch this as a programming error of the test. - Use test_done instead if you need to stop the tests early (see - "Skipping tests" below). - - - Don't use '! git cmd' when you want to make sure the git command - exits with failure in a controlled way by calling "die()". Instead, - use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git - dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault). - - On the other hand, don't use test_must_fail for running regular - platform commands; just use '! cmd'. We are not in the business - of verifying that the world given to us sanely works. - - - Don't feed the output of a git command to a pipe, as in: - - git -C repo ls-files | - xargs -n 1 basename | - grep foo - - which will discard git's exit code and may mask a crash. In the - above example, all exit codes are ignored except grep's. - - Instead, write the output of that command to a temporary - file with ">" or assign it to a variable with "x=$(git ...)" rather - than pipe it. - - - Don't use command substitution in a way that discards git's exit - code. When assigning to a variable, the exit code is not discarded, - e.g.: - - x=$(git cat-file -p $sha) && - ... - - is OK because a crash in "git cat-file" will cause the "&&" chain - to fail, but: - - test "refs/heads/foo" = "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)" - - is not OK and a crash in git could go undetected. - - - Don't use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help - our friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before - the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that - does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. Note that we - provide a "perl" function which uses $PERL_PATH under the hood, so - you do not need to worry when simply running perl in the test scripts - (but you do, for example, on a shebang line or in a sub script - created via "write_script"). - - - Don't use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script - can be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). - - - Don't chdir around in tests. It is not sufficient to chdir to - somewhere and then chdir back to the original location later in - the test, as any intermediate step can fail and abort the test, - causing the next test to start in an unexpected directory. Do so - inside a subshell if necessary. - - - Don't save and verify the standard error of compound commands, i.e. - group commands, subshells, and shell functions (except test helper - functions like 'test_must_fail') like this: - - ( cd dir && git cmd ) 2>error && - test_cmp expect error - - When running the test with '-x' tracing, then the trace of commands - executed in the compound command will be included in standard error - as well, quite possibly throwing off the subsequent checks examining - the output. Instead, save only the relevant git command's standard - error: - - ( cd dir && git cmd 2>../error ) && - test_cmp expect error - - - Don't break the TAP output - - The raw output from your test may be interpreted by a TAP harness. TAP - harnesses will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step - on their toes in these areas: - - - Don't print lines like "$x..$y" where $x and $y are integers. - - - Don't print lines that begin with "ok" or "not ok". - - TAP harnesses expect a line that begins with either "ok" and "not - ok" to signal a test passed or failed (and our harness already - produces such lines), so your script shouldn't emit such lines to - their output. - - You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar - (see https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP-GRAMMAR) - but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), - it'll complain if anything is amiss. - - -Skipping tests --------------- - -If you need to skip tests you should do so by using the three-arg form -of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section -below), e.g.: - - test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' ' - perl -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" - ' - -The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't -have the PERL and other optional dependencies get an indication of how -many tests they're missing. - -If the test code is too hairy for that (i.e. does a lot of setup work -outside test assertions) you can also skip all remaining tests by -setting skip_all and immediately call test_done: - - if ! test_have_prereq PERL - then - skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' - test_done - fi - -The string you give to skip_all will be used as an explanation for why -the test was skipped. - -End with test_done ------------------- - -Your script will be a sequence of tests, using helper functions -from the test harness library. At the end of the script, call -'test_done'. - - -Test harness library --------------------- - -There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness -library for your script to use. - - - test_expect_success [<prereq>] <message> <script> - - 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. - - Example: - - test_expect_success \ - 'git-write-tree should be able to write an empty tree.' \ - '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 - documentation below: - - test_expect_success TTY 'git --paginate rev-list uses a pager' \ - ' ... ' - - You can also supply a comma-separated list of prerequisites, in the - rare case where your test depends on more than one: - - test_expect_success PERL,PYTHON 'yo dawg' \ - ' test $(perl -E 'print eval "1 +" . qx[python -c "print 2"]') == "4" ' - - - test_expect_failure [<prereq>] <message> <script> - - This is NOT the opposite of test_expect_success, but is used - to mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage. Unlike - the usual test_expect_success tests, which say "ok" on - success and "FAIL" on failure, this will say "FIXED" on - success and "still broken" on failure. Failures from these - tests won't cause -i (immediate) to stop. - - Like test_expect_success this function can optionally use a three - argument invocation with a prerequisite as the first argument. - - - test_debug <script> - - This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only - when the test script is started with --debug command line - argument. This is primarily meant for use during the - development of a new test script. - - - debug <git-command> - - Run a git command inside a debugger. This is primarily meant for - use when debugging a failing test script. - - - test_done - - Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose - is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and - exit with an appropriate error code. - - - test_tick - - Make commit and tag names consistent by setting the author and - committer times to defined state. Subsequent calls will - advance the times by a fixed amount. - - - test_commit <message> [<filename> [<contents>]] - - Creates a commit with the given message, committing the given - file with the given contents (default for both is to reuse the - message string), and adds a tag (again reusing the message - string as name). Calls test_tick to make the SHA-1s - reproducible. - - - test_merge <message> <commit-or-tag> - - Merges the given rev using the given message. Like test_commit, - creates a tag and calls test_tick before committing. - - - 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 - "Prerequisites" section below for a full list of these. - - Others you can set yourself and use later with either - test_have_prereq directly, or the three argument invocation of - test_expect_success and test_expect_failure. - - - test_have_prereq <prereq> - - Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq. - The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the - implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip - all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some - essential prerequisite: - - if ! test_have_prereq PERL - then - skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' - test_done - fi - - - test_external [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> - - Execute a <script> with an <external> interpreter (like perl). This - was added for tests like t9700-perl-git.sh which do most of their - work in an external test script. - - test_external \ - 'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \ - perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl - - If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the - test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first - test_external* function. See t9700-perl-git.sh for an example. - - # The external test will outputs its own plan - test_external_has_tap=1 - - - test_external_without_stderr [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> - - Like test_external but fail if there's any output on stderr, - instead of checking the exit code. - - test_external_without_stderr \ - 'Perl API' \ - perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl - - - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command> - - Run a command and ensure that it exits with the given exit code. - For example: - - test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' ' - test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master - ' - - - test_must_fail [<options>] <git-command> - - Run a git command and ensure it fails in a controlled way. Use - this instead of "! <git-command>". When git-command dies due to a - segfault, test_must_fail diagnoses it as an error; "! <git-command>" - treats it as just another expected failure, which would let such a - bug go unnoticed. - - Accepts the following options: - - ok=<signal-name>[,<...>]: - Don't treat an exit caused by the given signal as error. - Multiple signals can be specified as a comma separated list. - Currently recognized signal names are: sigpipe, success. - (Don't use 'success', use 'test_might_fail' instead.) - - - test_might_fail [<options>] <git-command> - - Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this - instead of "<git-command> || :" to catch failures due to segv. - - Accepts the same options as test_must_fail. - - - test_cmp <expected> <actual> - - Check whether the content of the <actual> file matches the - <expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more - helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option. - - - test_cmp_rev <expected> <actual> - - Check whether the <expected> rev points to the same commit as the - <actual> rev. - - - test_line_count (= | -lt | -ge | ...) <length> <file> - - Check whether a file has the length it is expected to. - - - test_path_is_file <path> [<diagnosis>] - test_path_is_dir <path> [<diagnosis>] - test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>] - - 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> - - Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run to clean up - at the end of the current test. If some clean-up command - fails, the test will not pass. - - Example: - - test_expect_success 'branch pointing to non-commit' ' - git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} >.git/refs/heads/invalid && - test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/invalid" && - ... - ' - - - test_atexit <script> - - Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run unconditionally to - clean up before the test script exits, e.g. to stop a daemon: - - test_expect_success 'test git daemon' ' - git daemon & - daemon_pid=$! && - test_atexit 'kill $daemon_pid' && - hello world - ' - - The commands will be executed before the trash directory is removed, - i.e. the atexit commands will still be able to access any pidfiles or - socket files. - - Note that these commands will be run even when a test script run - with '--immediate' fails. Be careful with your atexit commands to - minimize any changes to the failed state. - - - test_write_lines <lines> - - Write <lines> on standard output, one line per argument. - Useful to prepare multi-line files in a compact form. - - Example: - - test_write_lines a b c d e f g >foo - - Is a more compact equivalent of: - cat >foo <<-EOF - a - b - c - d - e - f - g - EOF - - - - test_pause - - This command is useful for writing and debugging tests and must be - removed before submitting. It halts the execution of the test and - spawns a shell in the trash directory. Exit the shell to continue - the test. Example: - - test_expect_success 'test' ' - git do-something >actual && - test_pause && - test_cmp expected actual - ' - - - test_ln_s_add <path1> <path2> - - This function helps systems whose filesystem does not support symbolic - links. Use it to add a symbolic link entry to the index when it is not - important that the file system entry is a symbolic link, i.e., instead - of the sequence - - ln -s foo bar && - git add bar - - Sometimes it is possible to split a test in a part that does not need - the symbolic link in the file system and a part that does; then only - the latter part need be protected by a SYMLINKS prerequisite (see below). - - - test_oid_init - - This function loads facts and useful object IDs related to the hash - algorithm(s) in use from the files in t/oid-info. - - - test_oid_cache - - This function reads per-hash algorithm information from standard - input (usually a heredoc) in the format described in - t/oid-info/README. This is useful for test-specific values, such as - object IDs, which must vary based on the hash algorithm. - - Certain fixed values, such as hash sizes and common placeholder - object IDs, can be loaded with test_oid_init (described above). - - - test_oid <key> - - This function looks up a value for the hash algorithm in use, based - on the key given. The value must have been loaded using - test_oid_init or test_oid_cache. Providing an unknown key is an - error. - - - yes [<string>] - - This is often seen in modern UNIX but some platforms lack it, so - the test harness overrides the platform implementation with a - more limited one. Use this only when feeding a handful lines of - output to the downstream---unlike the real version, it generates - only up to 99 lines. - - -Prerequisites -------------- - -These are the prerequisites that the test library predefines with -test_have_prereq. - -See the prereq argument to the test_* functions in the "Test harness -library" section above and the "test_have_prereq" function for how to -use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. - - - PYTHON - - Git wasn't compiled with NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that - need Python with this. - - - PERL - - Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. - - Even without the PERL prerequisite, tests can assume there is a - usable perl interpreter at $PERL_PATH, though it need not be - particularly modern. - - - POSIXPERM - - The filesystem supports POSIX style permission bits. - - - BSLASHPSPEC - - Backslashes in pathspec are not directory separators. This is not - set on Windows. See 6fd1106a for details. - - - EXECKEEPSPID - - The process retains the same pid across exec(2). See fb9a2bea for - details. - - - PIPE - - The filesystem we're on supports creation of FIFOs (named pipes) - via mkfifo(1). - - - SYMLINKS - - The filesystem we're on supports symbolic links. E.g. a FAT - filesystem doesn't support these. See 704a3143 for details. - - - SANITY - - Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an - unwritable file is expected to fail correctly. - - - PCRE - - Git was compiled with support for PCRE. Wrap any tests - that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these. - - - LIBPCRE1 - - Git was compiled with PCRE v1 support via - USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease. Wrap any PCRE using tests that for some - reason need v1 of the PCRE library instead of v2 in these. - - - LIBPCRE2 - - Git was compiled with PCRE v2 support via - USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease. Wrap any PCRE using tests that for some - reason need v2 of the PCRE library instead of v1 in these. - - - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS - - Test is run on a case insensitive file system. - - - UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC - - Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd) - to precomposed utf-8 (nfc). - - - PTHREADS - - Git wasn't compiled with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease. - -Tips for Writing Tests ----------------------- - -As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best -source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate -t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in -that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it -knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/, -and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain -40-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh -because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is -to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal -drastically. For these people, after making certain changes, -not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And -such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these -otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by -an update to t0000-basic.sh. - -However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core -GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate -knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts -hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats -the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of -validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing -updating when such a change to the internal happens, so do _not_ -do it and leave the low level of validation to t0000-basic.sh. - -Test coverage -------------- - -You can use the coverage tests to find code paths that are not being -used or properly exercised yet. - -To do that, run the coverage target at the top-level (not in the t/ -directory): - - make coverage - -That'll compile Git with GCC's coverage arguments, and generate a test -report with gcov after the tests finish. Running the coverage tests -can take a while, since running the tests in parallel is incompatible -with GCC's coverage mode. - -After the tests have run you can generate a list of untested -functions: - - make coverage-untested-functions - -You can also generate a detailed per-file HTML report using the -Devel::Cover module. To install it do: - - # On Debian or Ubuntu: - sudo aptitude install libdevel-cover-perl - - # From the CPAN with cpanminus - curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo --self-upgrade - cpanm --sudo Devel::Cover - -Then, at the top-level: - - make cover_db_html - -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. |