Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] t2024: mark a `checkout -p` test as requiring Perl

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 23 2018, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> A recently-added test case tries to verify that the output of `checkout
> -p` contains a certain piece of advice.
>
> But if Git was built without Perl and therefore lacks support for `git
> add -i`, the error output contains the hint that `-p` is not even
> available instead.
>
> Let's just skip that test case altogether if Git was built with NO_PERL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh b/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh
> index 26dc3f1fc0..29e1e25300 100755
> --- a/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh
> +++ b/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh
> @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout of branch from multiple remotes fails #1' '
>  	test_branch master
>  '
>
> -test_expect_success 'checkout of branch from multiple remotes fails with advice' '
> +test_expect_success NO_PERL \
> +	'checkout of branch from multiple remotes fails with advice' '
>  	git checkout -B master &&
>  	test_might_fail git branch -D foo &&
>  	test_must_fail git checkout foo 2>stderr &&

This issue is already fixed in master as 3338e9950e ("t2024: mark test
using "checkout -p" with PERL prerequisite", 2018-08-18).