1Core GIT Tests 2============== 3 4This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The 5first part of this short document describes how to run the tests 6and read their output. 7 8When fixing the tools or adding enhancements, you are strongly 9encouraged to add tests in this directory to cover what you are 10trying to fix or enhance. The later part of this short document 11describes how your test scripts should be organized. 12 13 14Running Tests 15------------- 16 17The easiest way to run tests is to say "make". This runs all 18the tests. 19 20 *** t0000-basic.sh *** 21 ok 1 - .git/objects should be empty after git init in an empty repo. 22 ok 2 - .git/objects should have 3 subdirectories. 23 ok 3 - success is reported like this 24 ... 25 ok 43 - very long name in the index handled sanely 26 # fixed 1 known breakage(s) 27 # still have 1 known breakage(s) 28 # passed all remaining 42 test(s) 29 1..43 30 *** t0001-init.sh *** 31 ok 1 - plain 32 ok 2 - plain with GIT_WORK_TREE 33 ok 3 - plain bare 34 35Since the tests all output TAP (see http://testanything.org) they can 36be run with any TAP harness. Here's an example of parallel testing 37powered by a recent version of prove(1): 38 39 $ prove --timer --jobs 15 ./t[0-9]*.sh 40 [19:17:33] ./t0005-signals.sh ................................... ok 36 ms 41 [19:17:33] ./t0022-crlf-rename.sh ............................... ok 69 ms 42 [19:17:33] ./t0024-crlf-archive.sh .............................. ok 154 ms 43 [19:17:33] ./t0004-unwritable.sh ................................ ok 289 ms 44 [19:17:33] ./t0002-gitfile.sh ................................... ok 480 ms 45 ===( 102;0 25/? 6/? 5/? 16/? 1/? 4/? 2/? 1/? 3/? 1... )=== 46 47prove and other harnesses come with a lot of useful options. The 48--state option in particular is very useful: 49 50 # Repeat until no more failures 51 $ prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh 52 53You can give DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove on the make command (or define it 54in config.mak) to cause "make test" to run tests under prove. 55GIT_PROVE_OPTS can be used to pass additional options, e.g. 56 57 $ make DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS='--timer --jobs 16' test 58 59You can also run each test individually from command line, like this: 60 61 $ sh ./t3010-ls-files-killed-modified.sh 62 ok 1 - git update-index --add to add various paths. 63 ok 2 - git ls-files -k to show killed files. 64 ok 3 - validate git ls-files -k output. 65 ok 4 - git ls-files -m to show modified files. 66 ok 5 - validate git ls-files -m output. 67 # passed all 5 test(s) 68 1..5 69 70You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate 71(or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS 72appropriately before running "make". 73 74-v:: 75--verbose:: 76 This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the 77 command being run and their output if any are also 78 output. 79 80--verbose-only=<pattern>:: 81 Like --verbose, but the effect is limited to tests with 82 numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is 83 simply the running count of the test within the file. 84 85-d:: 86--debug:: 87 This may help the person who is developing a new test. 88 It causes the command defined with test_debug to run. 89 The "trash" directory (used to store all temporary data 90 during testing) is not deleted even if there are no 91 failed tests so that you can inspect its contents after 92 the test finished. 93 94-i:: 95--immediate:: 96 This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first 97 failed test. Cleanup commands requested with 98 test_when_finished are not executed if the test failed, 99 in order to keep the state for inspection by the tester 100 to diagnose the bug. 101 102-l:: 103--long-tests:: 104 This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where 105 available), for more exhaustive testing. 106 107-r:: 108--run=<test-selector>:: 109 Run only the subset of tests indicated by 110 <test-selector>. See section "Skipping Tests" below for 111 <test-selector> syntax. 112 113--valgrind=<tool>:: 114 Execute all Git binaries under valgrind tool <tool> and exit 115 with status 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will 116 only stop the test script when running under -i). 117 118 Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and 119 not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For 120 convenience, it also implies --tee. 121 122 <tool> defaults to 'memcheck', just like valgrind itself. 123 Other particularly useful choices include 'helgrind' and 124 'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind 125 installation. 126 127 As a special case, <tool> can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses 128 memcheck but disables --track-origins. Use this if you are 129 running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory 130 issues. 131 132 Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no, 133 as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not 134 interesting. In order to run a single command under the same 135 conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to 136 the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under 137 't/valgrind/bin/'. 138 139--valgrind-only=<pattern>:: 140 Like --valgrind, but the effect is limited to tests with 141 numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is 142 simply the running count of the test within the file. 143 144--tee:: 145 In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, 146 write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. 147 As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to 148 run the tests with this option in parallel. 149 150--with-dashes:: 151 By default tests are run without dashed forms of 152 commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses 153 wrappers from ../bin-wrappers). Use this option to include 154 the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all 155 the dashed forms of commands. This option is currently 156 implied by other options like --valgrind and 157 GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. 158 159--root=<directory>:: 160 Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during 161 testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory. 162 Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) 163 can massively speed up the test suite. 164 165You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to 166the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. 167You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various 168test-* support programs, templates, and perl libraries are used. 169If your installed git is incomplete, it will silently test parts of 170your built version instead. 171 172When using GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, you can also set GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH to 173override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what 174GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation). 175GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`. 176 177 178Skipping Tests 179-------------- 180 181In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding 182due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or 183filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes 184as pathnames. 185 186You should be able to say something like 187 188 $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh 189 190and even: 191 192 $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make 193 194to omit such tests. The value of the environment variable is a 195SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip, 196and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole 197test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which 198particular test to skip. 199 200For an individual test suite --run could be used to specify that 201only some tests should be run or that some tests should be 202excluded from a run. 203 204The argument for --run is a list of individual test numbers or 205ranges with an optional negation prefix that define what tests in 206a test suite to include in the run. A range is two numbers 207separated with a dash and matches a range of tests with both ends 208been included. You may omit the first or the second number to 209mean "from the first test" or "up to the very last test" 210respectively. 211 212Optional prefix of '!' means that the test or a range of tests 213should be excluded from the run. 214 215If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range the initial 216set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!' 217all the tests are added to the initial set. After initial set is 218determined every test number or range is added or excluded from 219the set one by one, from left to right. 220 221Individual numbers or ranges could be separated either by a space 222or a comma. 223 224For example, to run only tests up to a specific test (21), one 225could do this: 226 227 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-21' 228 229or this: 230 231 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-21' 232 233Common case is to run several setup tests (1, 2, 3) and then a 234specific test (21) that relies on that setup: 235 236 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1 2 3 21' 237 238or: 239 240 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run=1,2,3,21 241 242or: 243 244 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-3 21' 245 246As noted above, the test set is built going though items left to 247right, so this: 248 249 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-4 !3' 250 251will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that comes later have higher 252precendence. It means that this: 253 254 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!3 1-4' 255 256would just run tests from 1 to 4, including 3. 257 258You may use negation with ranges. The following will run all 259test in the test suite except from 7 up to 11: 260 261 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!7-11' 262 263Some tests in a test suite rely on the previous tests performing 264certain actions, specifically some tests are designated as 265"setup" test, so you cannot _arbitrarily_ disable one test and 266expect the rest to function correctly. 267 268--run is mostly useful when you want to focus on a specific test 269and know what setup is needed for it. Or when you want to run 270everything up to a certain test. 271 272 273Naming Tests 274------------ 275 276The test files are named as: 277 278 tNNNN-commandname-details.sh 279 280where N is a decimal digit. 281 282First digit tells the family: 283 284 0 - the absolute basics and global stuff 285 1 - the basic commands concerning database 286 2 - the basic commands concerning the working tree 287 3 - the other basic commands (e.g. ls-files) 288 4 - the diff commands 289 5 - the pull and exporting commands 290 6 - the revision tree commands (even e.g. merge-base) 291 7 - the porcelainish commands concerning the working tree 292 8 - the porcelainish commands concerning forensics 293 9 - the git tools 294 295Second digit tells the particular command we are testing. 296 297Third digit (optionally) tells the particular switch or group of switches 298we are testing. 299 300If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not 301the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above 302pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the 303top-level test script and tries to run all of them. Care is 304especially needed if you are creating a common test library 305file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may 306not be suitable for standalone execution. 307 308 309Writing Tests 310------------- 311 312The test script is written as a shell script. It should start 313with the standard "#!/bin/sh" with copyright notices, and an 314assignment to variable 'test_description', like this: 315 316 #!/bin/sh 317 # 318 # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano 319 # 320 321 test_description='xxx test (option --frotz) 322 323 This test registers the following structure in the cache 324 and tries to run git-ls-files with option --frotz.' 325 326 327Source 'test-lib.sh' 328-------------------- 329 330After assigning test_description, the test script should source 331test-lib.sh like this: 332 333 . ./test-lib.sh 334 335This test harness library does the following things: 336 337 - If the script is invoked with command line argument --help 338 (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits. 339 340 - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database 341 and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash 342 directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by 343 the --root option documented above. 344 345 - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to 346 use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave 347 consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), 348 --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. 349 350Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind 351------------------------------------- 352 353Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do 354when writing tests. 355 356Do: 357 358 - Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions. 359 360 Even code that isn't a test per se, but merely some setup code 361 should be inside a test assertion. 362 363 - Chain your test assertions 364 365 Write test code like this: 366 367 git merge foo && 368 git push bar && 369 test ... 370 371 Instead of: 372 373 git merge hla 374 git push gh 375 test ... 376 377 That way all of the commands in your tests will succeed or fail. If 378 you must ignore the return value of something, consider using a 379 helper function (e.g. use sane_unset instead of unset, in order 380 to avoid unportable return value for unsetting a variable that was 381 already unset), or prepending the command with test_might_fail or 382 test_must_fail. 383 384 - Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage" 385 below. 386 387 Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics; if a new function you added 388 doesn't have any coverage, then you're probably doing something wrong, 389 but having 100% coverage doesn't necessarily mean that you tested 390 everything. 391 392 Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better 393 than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics. 394 395 - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated, 396 construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD, 397 $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on 398 Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. 399 For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. 400 401Don't: 402 403 - exit() within a <script> part. 404 405 The harness will catch this as a programming error of the test. 406 Use test_done instead if you need to stop the tests early (see 407 "Skipping tests" below). 408 409 - use '! git cmd' when you want to make sure the git command exits 410 with failure in a controlled way by calling "die()". Instead, 411 use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git 412 dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault). 413 414 On the other hand, don't use test_must_fail for running regular 415 platform commands; just use '! cmd'. 416 417 - use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our 418 friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before 419 the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that 420 does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. Note that we 421 provide a "perl" function which uses $PERL_PATH under the hood, so 422 you do not need to worry when simply running perl in the test scripts 423 (but you do, for example, on a shebang line or in a sub script 424 created via "write_script"). 425 426 - use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script can 427 be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). 428 429 - chdir around in tests. It is not sufficient to chdir to 430 somewhere and then chdir back to the original location later in 431 the test, as any intermediate step can fail and abort the test, 432 causing the next test to start in an unexpected directory. Do so 433 inside a subshell if necessary. 434 435 - Break the TAP output 436 437 The raw output from your test may be interpreted by a TAP harness. TAP 438 harnesses will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step 439 on their toes in these areas: 440 441 - Don't print lines like "$x..$y" where $x and $y are integers. 442 443 - Don't print lines that begin with "ok" or "not ok". 444 445 TAP harnesses expect a line that begins with either "ok" and "not 446 ok" to signal a test passed or failed (and our harness already 447 produces such lines), so your script shouldn't emit such lines to 448 their output. 449 450 You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar 451 (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar) 452 but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), 453 it'll complain if anything is amiss. 454 455Keep in mind: 456 457 - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error 458 streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or 459 "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they 460 are shown to help debugging the tests. 461 462 463Skipping tests 464-------------- 465 466If you need to skip tests you should do so by using the three-arg form 467of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section 468below), e.g.: 469 470 test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' ' 471 perl -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" 472 ' 473 474The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't 475have the PERL and other optional dependencies get an indication of how 476many tests they're missing. 477 478If the test code is too hairy for that (i.e. does a lot of setup work 479outside test assertions) you can also skip all remaining tests by 480setting skip_all and immediately call test_done: 481 482 if ! test_have_prereq PERL 483 then 484 skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' 485 test_done 486 fi 487 488The string you give to skip_all will be used as an explanation for why 489the test was skipped. 490 491End with test_done 492------------------ 493 494Your script will be a sequence of tests, using helper functions 495from the test harness library. At the end of the script, call 496'test_done'. 497 498 499Test harness library 500-------------------- 501 502There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness 503library for your script to use. 504 505 - test_expect_success [<prereq>] <message> <script> 506 507 Usually takes two strings as parameters, and evaluates the 508 <script>. If it yields success, test is considered 509 successful. <message> should state what it is testing. 510 511 Example: 512 513 test_expect_success \ 514 'git-write-tree should be able to write an empty tree.' \ 515 'tree=$(git-write-tree)' 516 517 If you supply three parameters the first will be taken to be a 518 prerequisite; see the test_set_prereq and test_have_prereq 519 documentation below: 520 521 test_expect_success TTY 'git --paginate rev-list uses a pager' \ 522 ' ... ' 523 524 You can also supply a comma-separated list of prerequisites, in the 525 rare case where your test depends on more than one: 526 527 test_expect_success PERL,PYTHON 'yo dawg' \ 528 ' test $(perl -E 'print eval "1 +" . qx[python -c "print 2"]') == "4" ' 529 530 - test_expect_failure [<prereq>] <message> <script> 531 532 This is NOT the opposite of test_expect_success, but is used 533 to mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage. Unlike 534 the usual test_expect_success tests, which say "ok" on 535 success and "FAIL" on failure, this will say "FIXED" on 536 success and "still broken" on failure. Failures from these 537 tests won't cause -i (immediate) to stop. 538 539 Like test_expect_success this function can optionally use a three 540 argument invocation with a prerequisite as the first argument. 541 542 - test_debug <script> 543 544 This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only 545 when the test script is started with --debug command line 546 argument. This is primarily meant for use during the 547 development of a new test script. 548 549 - test_done 550 551 Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose 552 is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and 553 exit with an appropriate error code. 554 555 - test_tick 556 557 Make commit and tag names consistent by setting the author and 558 committer times to defined state. Subsequent calls will 559 advance the times by a fixed amount. 560 561 - test_commit <message> [<filename> [<contents>]] 562 563 Creates a commit with the given message, committing the given 564 file with the given contents (default for both is to reuse the 565 message string), and adds a tag (again reusing the message 566 string as name). Calls test_tick to make the SHA-1s 567 reproducible. 568 569 - test_merge <message> <commit-or-tag> 570 571 Merges the given rev using the given message. Like test_commit, 572 creates a tag and calls test_tick before committing. 573 574 - test_set_prereq <prereq> 575 576 Set a test prerequisite to be used later with test_have_prereq. The 577 test-lib will set some prerequisites for you, see the 578 "Prerequisites" section below for a full list of these. 579 580 Others you can set yourself and use later with either 581 test_have_prereq directly, or the three argument invocation of 582 test_expect_success and test_expect_failure. 583 584 - test_have_prereq <prereq> 585 586 Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with 587 test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip 588 all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite: 589 590 if ! test_have_prereq PERL 591 then 592 skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' 593 test_done 594 fi 595 596 - test_external [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> 597 598 Execute a <script> with an <external> interpreter (like perl). This 599 was added for tests like t9700-perl-git.sh which do most of their 600 work in an external test script. 601 602 test_external \ 603 'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \ 604 perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl 605 606 If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the 607 test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first 608 test_external* function. See t9700-perl-git.sh for an example. 609 610 # The external test will outputs its own plan 611 test_external_has_tap=1 612 613 - test_external_without_stderr [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> 614 615 Like test_external but fail if there's any output on stderr, 616 instead of checking the exit code. 617 618 test_external_without_stderr \ 619 'Perl API' \ 620 perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl 621 622 - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command> 623 624 Run a command and ensure that it exits with the given exit code. 625 For example: 626 627 test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' ' 628 test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master 629 ' 630 631 - test_must_fail <git-command> 632 633 Run a git command and ensure it fails in a controlled way. Use 634 this instead of "! <git-command>". When git-command dies due to a 635 segfault, test_must_fail diagnoses it as an error; "! <git-command>" 636 treats it as just another expected failure, which would let such a 637 bug go unnoticed. 638 639 - test_might_fail <git-command> 640 641 Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this 642 instead of "<git-command> || :" to catch failures due to segv. 643 644 - test_cmp <expected> <actual> 645 646 Check whether the content of the <actual> file matches the 647 <expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more 648 helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option. 649 650 - test_line_count (= | -lt | -ge | ...) <length> <file> 651 652 Check whether a file has the length it is expected to. 653 654 - test_path_is_file <path> [<diagnosis>] 655 test_path_is_dir <path> [<diagnosis>] 656 test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>] 657 658 Check if the named path is a file, if the named path is a 659 directory, or if the named path does not exist, respectively, 660 and fail otherwise, showing the <diagnosis> text. 661 662 - test_when_finished <script> 663 664 Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run to clean up 665 at the end of the current test. If some clean-up command 666 fails, the test will not pass. 667 668 Example: 669 670 test_expect_success 'branch pointing to non-commit' ' 671 git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} >.git/refs/heads/invalid && 672 test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/invalid" && 673 ... 674 ' 675 676 - test_write_lines <lines> 677 678 Write <lines> on standard output, one line per argument. 679 Useful to prepare multi-line files in a compact form. 680 681 Example: 682 683 test_write_lines a b c d e f g >foo 684 685 Is a more compact equivalent of: 686 cat >foo <<-EOF 687 a 688 b 689 c 690 d 691 e 692 f 693 g 694 EOF 695 696 697 - test_pause 698 699 This command is useful for writing and debugging tests and must be 700 removed before submitting. It halts the execution of the test and 701 spawns a shell in the trash directory. Exit the shell to continue 702 the test. Example: 703 704 test_expect_success 'test' ' 705 git do-something >actual && 706 test_pause && 707 test_cmp expected actual 708 ' 709 710 - test_ln_s_add <path1> <path2> 711 712 This function helps systems whose filesystem does not support symbolic 713 links. Use it to add a symbolic link entry to the index when it is not 714 important that the file system entry is a symbolic link, i.e., instead 715 of the sequence 716 717 ln -s foo bar && 718 git add bar 719 720 Sometimes it is possible to split a test in a part that does not need 721 the symbolic link in the file system and a part that does; then only 722 the latter part need be protected by a SYMLINKS prerequisite (see below). 723 724Prerequisites 725------------- 726 727These are the prerequisites that the test library predefines with 728test_have_prereq. 729 730See the prereq argument to the test_* functions in the "Test harness 731library" section above and the "test_have_prereq" function for how to 732use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. 733 734 - PYTHON 735 736 Git wasn't compiled with NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that 737 need Python with this. 738 739 - PERL 740 741 Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. 742 743 Even without the PERL prerequisite, tests can assume there is a 744 usable perl interpreter at $PERL_PATH, though it need not be 745 particularly modern. 746 747 - POSIXPERM 748 749 The filesystem supports POSIX style permission bits. 750 751 - BSLASHPSPEC 752 753 Backslashes in pathspec are not directory separators. This is not 754 set on Windows. See 6fd1106a for details. 755 756 - EXECKEEPSPID 757 758 The process retains the same pid across exec(2). See fb9a2bea for 759 details. 760 761 - PIPE 762 763 The filesystem we're on supports creation of FIFOs (named pipes) 764 via mkfifo(1). 765 766 - SYMLINKS 767 768 The filesystem we're on supports symbolic links. E.g. a FAT 769 filesystem doesn't support these. See 704a3143 for details. 770 771 - SANITY 772 773 Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an 774 unwritable file is expected to fail correctly. 775 776 - LIBPCRE 777 778 Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests 779 that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these. 780 781 - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS 782 783 Test is run on a case insensitive file system. 784 785 - UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC 786 787 Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd) 788 to precomposed utf-8 (nfc). 789 790Tips for Writing Tests 791---------------------- 792 793As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best 794source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate 795t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in 796that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it 797knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/, 798and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain 79940-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh 800because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is 801to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal 802drastically. For these people, after making certain changes, 803not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And 804such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these 805otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by 806an update to t0000-basic.sh. 807 808However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core 809GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate 810knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts 811hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats 812the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of 813validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing 814updating when such a change to the internal happens, so do _not_ 815do it and leave the low level of validation to t0000-basic.sh. 816 817Test coverage 818------------- 819 820You can use the coverage tests to find code paths that are not being 821used or properly exercised yet. 822 823To do that, run the coverage target at the top-level (not in the t/ 824directory): 825 826 make coverage 827 828That'll compile Git with GCC's coverage arguments, and generate a test 829report with gcov after the tests finish. Running the coverage tests 830can take a while, since running the tests in parallel is incompatible 831with GCC's coverage mode. 832 833After the tests have run you can generate a list of untested 834functions: 835 836 make coverage-untested-functions 837 838You can also generate a detailed per-file HTML report using the 839Devel::Cover module. To install it do: 840 841 # On Debian or Ubuntu: 842 sudo aptitude install libdevel-cover-perl 843 844 # From the CPAN with cpanminus 845 curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo --self-upgrade 846 cpanm --sudo Devel::Cover 847 848Then, at the top-level: 849 850 make cover_db_html 851 852That'll generate a detailed cover report in the "cover_db_html" 853directory, which you can then copy to a webserver, or inspect locally 854in a browser.