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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9010: svnadmin can fail even if available
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:28:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107165837.GA8062@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107013159.GA23280@burratino>

Hi,

Jonathan Nieder writes:
> To do the same for t91* would be impossible.  If svn is broken or not
> installed, svn-fe will run fine, but "git svn" will not.  On the other
> hand, if svnadmin were broken but svn still worked, "git svn" would be
> fine but that would be quite strange and I do not think it is worth
> spending time to prepare for.

I don't think it's worth spending time preparing for every concievable
breakage. The patch A few more examples of possible breakages I've
encountered:
- APR compiled without threading support, SVN compiled with it, or
  viceversa.
- SVN is compiled against GNU iconv, but apr-iconv installed, or
  viceversa.
- Two different versions of a dependent library are installed, and SVN
  links to a different version in a different location.

One or many components of SVN may fail. So, I'm in favor of the
current approach: if SVN is installed, attempt to run all the t91*
tests. Any failure can either be interpreted as a real test failure or
malformed SVN installation.

-- Ram

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 16:04 Repeatable test t9010-svn-fe.sh failure w/ master (685e9d9, 1.7.4.rc1) A Large Angry SCM
2011-01-06 16:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-06 17:20   ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-01-06 18:00     ` [PATCH] t9010: svnadmin can fail even if available Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-06 18:32       ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-01-06 20:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-06 20:46         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07  1:07           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-07  1:31             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07 16:58               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2011-01-07 18:54                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-06 18:15     ` Repeatable test t9010-svn-fe.sh failure w/ master (685e9d9, 1.7.4.rc1) Junio C Hamano
2011-01-06 19:06       ` A Large Angry SCM

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