From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rogan Dawes Subject: Re: [FYI][PATCH] Execute testsuite on existing Git installation Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:50:51 +0200 Message-ID: <48E6314B.3090609@dawes.za.net> References: <20081003131314.GS10544@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 03 16:55:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Klm2w-0002j8-Vg for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:54:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752223AbYJCOwm (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:52:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753520AbYJCOwm (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:52:42 -0400 Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:58093 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753528AbYJCOwl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:52:41 -0400 Received: from spunkymail-a8.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-145.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.145]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2304517C58C for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.201.101] (dsl-243-205-139.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.205.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by spunkymail-a8.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4EA10A061; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:51:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: <20081003131314.GS10544@machine.or.cz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: > When I joined here, one of the first tasks I had was to "verify if the > existing system-wide Git installation works fine on the local Linux > setup (of unknown qualities)". I couldn't think of anything better than > to run the Git testsuite, but using the system-wide Git instead of > locally compiled one. > > This extremely dirty patch achieves this; patch testsuite of Git version > corresponding to the system-wide installation, of course. You will still > need to make the test helpers. > > I don't have any real interest on developing this further or tidying it > up, but I have thought that someone might find this useful to just use > or push forward, so here it goes. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis > Perhaps a stupid question, but might it not be easier to add the git build dir to the front of the PATH, and then remove the explicit paths? I realise that if the build was unsuccessful, you may end up executing a different version of git than you expect, though. Rogan