Re: [PATCH] t: avoid sed-based chain-linting in some expensive cases

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Of course those extra lint checks are doing something useful, so paying
> a few extra seconds (at least on Linux) isn't so bad (though note the
> CPU time; we're bounded in our parallel run here by the slowest test, so
> it really is ~120s of CPU improvement).

Nice.

> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index adaa2db601..adaf03543e 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -947,8 +947,11 @@ test_run_ () {
>  		trace=
>  		# 117 is magic because it is unlikely to match the exit
>  		# code of other programs
> -		if $(printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/chainlint.sed" | grep -q '?![A-Z][A-Z]*?!') ||
> -			test "OK-117" != "$(test_eval_ "(exit 117) && $1${LF}${LF}echo OK-\$?" 3>&1)"
> +		if test "OK-117" != "$(test_eval_ "(exit 117) && $1${LF}${LF}echo OK-\$?" 3>&1)" ||
> +		   {
> +			test "${GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER:-${GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT_HARDER_DEFAULT:-1}}" != 0 &&
> +			$(printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/chainlint.sed" | grep -q '?![A-Z][A-Z]*?!')
> +		   }

We have been doing the more expensive one first, but we now
optionally skip it while retaining the one that uses the shell.
OK.

Nicely done.

>  		then
>  			BUG "broken &&-chain or run-away HERE-DOC: $1"
>  		fi