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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>,
	"Tim Henigan" <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [minor] two tests broken when run with a --root directory that's a symlink
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:50:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50774D25.6000403@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX6Cu_4X=AywsDMebdoFYdEN1Gmp439aEAcehHBuMhziTw@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/11/2012 11:55 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> These issues are minor, I noticed it because I test with /dev/shm/git
> as the --root, which on Debian is symlinked to /run/..
> 
>     $ rm -rf /tmp/{foo,bar}
>     $ mkdir /tmp/target; ln -s /tmp/target /tmp/link
>     $ prove ./t4035-diff-quiet.sh ./t9903-bash-prompt.sh :: --root=/tmp/target
>     ./t4035-diff-quiet.sh ... ok
>     ./t9903-bash-prompt.sh .. ok
>     All tests successful.
>     Files=2, Tests=64,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr  0.00 sys +  0.07
> cusr  0.06 csys =  0.17 CPU)
>     Result: PASS
>     $ prove ./t4035-diff-quiet.sh ./t9903-bash-prompt.sh :: --root=/tmp/link
>     ./t4035-diff-quiet.sh ... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
>     Failed 3/20 subtests
>     ./t9903-bash-prompt.sh .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
>     Failed 6/44 subtests
> 
> Everything else in the test suite passes with a --root that's a symlink.

I ran into the same problem a while ago, and submitted a patch series
that fixes t4035 (whose problems are related to GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES):

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206633

Junio didn't like the approach so much and I haven't yet had time to
submit a revised version.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-11 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-11 21:55 [minor] two tests broken when run with a --root directory that's a symlink Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-10-11 22:38 ` [PATCH] bash prompt: fix tests when run with a symlink --root SZEDER Gábor
2012-10-11 22:50 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-10-11 23:26   ` [minor] two tests broken when run with a --root directory that's a symlink Junio C Hamano

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