Re: [PATCH] t9010: svnadmin can fail even if available

[A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>]

On 01/06/2011 01:00 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> If svn is built against one version of SQLite and run against
> another, svnadmin (needlessly) errors out during t9010:
>
>   <<<  Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
>        * adding path : branches ... done.
>        * adding path : trunk ... done.
>   svnadmin: Couldn't perform atomic initialization
>   svnadmin: Couldn't perform atomic initialization
>   svnadmin: SQLite compiled for 3.7.4, but running with 3.7.3
>
> Work around this by putting the svn invocations into a single test
> that builds a repo to compare the test-svn-fe result against.  This
> test would always pass but only set the new SVNREPO test prereq if svn
> succeeds; and the test using that repo gets an SVNREPO prerequisite so
> it only runs with working svn installations.
>
> This seems like the right thing to, anyway: the test script is meant
> to test the version of git just built, not the installed svn.
>
> As a side effect, earlier tests will run now even if svn is not
> installed.  Remove the svn_cmd () helper to decrease the temptation to
> run svn from those tests.
>
> Works-around: http://bugs.debian.org/608925
> Reported-by: A Large Angry SCM<gitzilla@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder<jrnieder@gmail.com>
> ---
> Thanks.  Does this patch work for you?

$ sh t9010-svn-fe.sh
ok 1 - empty dump
ok 2 - v3 dumps not supported
ok 3 - set up svn repo
ok 4 # skip t9135/svn.dump (missing SVNREPO)
# passed all 4 test(s)
1..4

Rerunning the full test suite now ...