Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] cmake: use test names instead of full paths

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Johannes

On 18/09/2023 21:54, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> The primary purpose of Git's CMake definition is to allow developing Git
> in Visual Studio. As part of that, the CTest feature allows running
> individual test scripts conveniently in Visual Studio's Test Explorer.
> 
> However, this Test Explorer's design targets object-oriented languages
> and therefore expects the test names in the form
> `<namespace>.<class>.<testname>`. And since we specify the full path
> of the test scripts instead, including the ugly `/.././t/` part, these
> dots confuse the Test Explorer and it uses a large part of the path as
> "namespace".
> 
> Let's just use `t.<name>` instead. This still adds an ugly "Empty
> Namespace" layer by default, but at least the ugly absolute path is now
> gone.

That does sound like a worthwhile improvement. If we used `git.t.<name>` 
would that fix the "Empty Namespace" problem? (probably not worth a 
re-roll on its own)

Best Wishes

Phillip

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>   contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
> index ad197ea433f..ff1a8cc348f 100644
> --- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
> +++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
> @@ -1106,13 +1106,14 @@ file(GLOB test_scripts "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/t[0-9]*.sh")
>   
>   #test
>   foreach(tsh ${test_scripts})
> -	add_test(NAME ${tsh}
> +	string(REGEX REPLACE ".*/(.*)\\.sh" "\\1" test_name ${tsh})
> +	add_test(NAME "t.${test_name}"
>   		COMMAND ${SH_EXE} ${tsh} --no-bin-wrappers --no-chain-lint -vx
>   		WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t)
>   endforeach()
>   
>   # This test script takes an extremely long time and is known to time out even
>   # on fast machines because it requires in excess of one hour to run
> -set_tests_properties("${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/t7112-reset-submodule.sh" PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 4000)
> +set_tests_properties("t.t7112-reset-submodule" PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 4000)
>   
>   endif()#BUILD_TESTING