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   1# Library of functions shared by all tests scripts, included by
   2# test-lib.sh.
   3#
   4# Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
   5#
   6# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   7# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   8# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
   9# (at your option) any later version.
  10#
  11# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  12# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  13# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  14# GNU General Public License for more details.
  15#
  16# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  17# along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
  18
  19# The semantics of the editor variables are that of invoking
  20# sh -c "$EDITOR \"$@\"" files ...
  21#
  22# If our trash directory contains shell metacharacters, they will be
  23# interpreted if we just set $EDITOR directly, so do a little dance with
  24# environment variables to work around this.
  25#
  26# In particular, quoting isn't enough, as the path may contain the same quote
  27# that we're using.
  28test_set_editor () {
  29        FAKE_EDITOR="$1"
  30        export FAKE_EDITOR
  31        EDITOR='"$FAKE_EDITOR"'
  32        export EDITOR
  33}
  34
  35test_set_index_version () {
  36    GIT_INDEX_VERSION="$1"
  37    export GIT_INDEX_VERSION
  38}
  39
  40test_decode_color () {
  41        awk '
  42                function name(n) {
  43                        if (n == 0) return "RESET";
  44                        if (n == 1) return "BOLD";
  45                        if (n == 30) return "BLACK";
  46                        if (n == 31) return "RED";
  47                        if (n == 32) return "GREEN";
  48                        if (n == 33) return "YELLOW";
  49                        if (n == 34) return "BLUE";
  50                        if (n == 35) return "MAGENTA";
  51                        if (n == 36) return "CYAN";
  52                        if (n == 37) return "WHITE";
  53                        if (n == 40) return "BLACK";
  54                        if (n == 41) return "BRED";
  55                        if (n == 42) return "BGREEN";
  56                        if (n == 43) return "BYELLOW";
  57                        if (n == 44) return "BBLUE";
  58                        if (n == 45) return "BMAGENTA";
  59                        if (n == 46) return "BCYAN";
  60                        if (n == 47) return "BWHITE";
  61                }
  62                {
  63                        while (match($0, /\033\[[0-9;]*m/) != 0) {
  64                                printf "%s<", substr($0, 1, RSTART-1);
  65                                codes = substr($0, RSTART+2, RLENGTH-3);
  66                                if (length(codes) == 0)
  67                                        printf "%s", name(0)
  68                                else {
  69                                        n = split(codes, ary, ";");
  70                                        sep = "";
  71                                        for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
  72                                                printf "%s%s", sep, name(ary[i]);
  73                                                sep = ";"
  74                                        }
  75                                }
  76                                printf ">";
  77                                $0 = substr($0, RSTART + RLENGTH, length($0) - RSTART - RLENGTH + 1);
  78                        }
  79                        print
  80                }
  81        '
  82}
  83
  84lf_to_nul () {
  85        perl -pe 'y/\012/\000/'
  86}
  87
  88nul_to_q () {
  89        perl -pe 'y/\000/Q/'
  90}
  91
  92q_to_nul () {
  93        perl -pe 'y/Q/\000/'
  94}
  95
  96q_to_cr () {
  97        tr Q '\015'
  98}
  99
 100q_to_tab () {
 101        tr Q '\011'
 102}
 103
 104qz_to_tab_space () {
 105        tr QZ '\011\040'
 106}
 107
 108append_cr () {
 109        sed -e 's/$/Q/' | tr Q '\015'
 110}
 111
 112remove_cr () {
 113        tr '\015' Q | sed -e 's/Q$//'
 114}
 115
 116# In some bourne shell implementations, the "unset" builtin returns
 117# nonzero status when a variable to be unset was not set in the first
 118# place.
 119#
 120# Use sane_unset when that should not be considered an error.
 121
 122sane_unset () {
 123        unset "$@"
 124        return 0
 125}
 126
 127test_tick () {
 128        if test -z "${test_tick+set}"
 129        then
 130                test_tick=1112911993
 131        else
 132                test_tick=$(($test_tick + 60))
 133        fi
 134        GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$test_tick -0700"
 135        GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$test_tick -0700"
 136        export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
 137}
 138
 139# Stop execution and start a shell. This is useful for debugging tests and
 140# only makes sense together with "-v".
 141#
 142# Be sure to remove all invocations of this command before submitting.
 143
 144test_pause () {
 145        if test "$verbose" = t; then
 146                "$SHELL_PATH" <&6 >&3 2>&4
 147        else
 148                error >&5 "test_pause requires --verbose"
 149        fi
 150}
 151
 152# Wrap git in gdb. Adding this to a command can make it easier to
 153# understand what is going on in a failing test.
 154#
 155# Example: "debug git checkout master".
 156debug () {
 157         GIT_TEST_GDB=1 "$@"
 158}
 159
 160# Call test_commit with the arguments "<message> [<file> [<contents> [<tag>]]]"
 161#
 162# This will commit a file with the given contents and the given commit
 163# message, and tag the resulting commit with the given tag name.
 164#
 165# <file>, <contents>, and <tag> all default to <message>.
 166
 167test_commit () {
 168        notick= &&
 169        signoff= &&
 170        while test $# != 0
 171        do
 172                case "$1" in
 173                --notick)
 174                        notick=yes
 175                        ;;
 176                --signoff)
 177                        signoff="$1"
 178                        ;;
 179                *)
 180                        break
 181                        ;;
 182                esac
 183                shift
 184        done &&
 185        file=${2:-"$1.t"} &&
 186        echo "${3-$1}" > "$file" &&
 187        git add "$file" &&
 188        if test -z "$notick"
 189        then
 190                test_tick
 191        fi &&
 192        git commit $signoff -m "$1" &&
 193        git tag "${4:-$1}"
 194}
 195
 196# Call test_merge with the arguments "<message> <commit>", where <commit>
 197# can be a tag pointing to the commit-to-merge.
 198
 199test_merge () {
 200        test_tick &&
 201        git merge -m "$1" "$2" &&
 202        git tag "$1"
 203}
 204
 205# This function helps systems where core.filemode=false is set.
 206# Use it instead of plain 'chmod +x' to set or unset the executable bit
 207# of a file in the working directory and add it to the index.
 208
 209test_chmod () {
 210        chmod "$@" &&
 211        git update-index --add "--chmod=$@"
 212}
 213
 214# Unset a configuration variable, but don't fail if it doesn't exist.
 215test_unconfig () {
 216        config_dir=
 217        if test "$1" = -C
 218        then
 219                shift
 220                config_dir=$1
 221                shift
 222        fi
 223        git ${config_dir:+-C "$config_dir"} config --unset-all "$@"
 224        config_status=$?
 225        case "$config_status" in
 226        5) # ok, nothing to unset
 227                config_status=0
 228                ;;
 229        esac
 230        return $config_status
 231}
 232
 233# Set git config, automatically unsetting it after the test is over.
 234test_config () {
 235        config_dir=
 236        if test "$1" = -C
 237        then
 238                shift
 239                config_dir=$1
 240                shift
 241        fi
 242        test_when_finished "test_unconfig ${config_dir:+-C '$config_dir'} '$1'" &&
 243        git ${config_dir:+-C "$config_dir"} config "$@"
 244}
 245
 246test_config_global () {
 247        test_when_finished "test_unconfig --global '$1'" &&
 248        git config --global "$@"
 249}
 250
 251write_script () {
 252        {
 253                echo "#!${2-"$SHELL_PATH"}" &&
 254                cat
 255        } >"$1" &&
 256        chmod +x "$1"
 257}
 258
 259# Use test_set_prereq to tell that a particular prerequisite is available.
 260# The prerequisite can later be checked for in two ways:
 261#
 262# - Explicitly using test_have_prereq.
 263#
 264# - Implicitly by specifying the prerequisite tag in the calls to
 265#   test_expect_{success,failure,code}.
 266#
 267# The single parameter is the prerequisite tag (a simple word, in all
 268# capital letters by convention).
 269
 270test_set_prereq () {
 271        satisfied_prereq="$satisfied_prereq$1 "
 272}
 273satisfied_prereq=" "
 274lazily_testable_prereq= lazily_tested_prereq=
 275
 276# Usage: test_lazy_prereq PREREQ 'script'
 277test_lazy_prereq () {
 278        lazily_testable_prereq="$lazily_testable_prereq$1 "
 279        eval test_prereq_lazily_$1=\$2
 280}
 281
 282test_run_lazy_prereq_ () {
 283        script='
 284mkdir -p "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" &&
 285(
 286        cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" &&'"$2"'
 287)'
 288        say >&3 "checking prerequisite: $1"
 289        say >&3 "$script"
 290        test_eval_ "$script"
 291        eval_ret=$?
 292        rm -rf "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir"
 293        if test "$eval_ret" = 0; then
 294                say >&3 "prerequisite $1 ok"
 295        else
 296                say >&3 "prerequisite $1 not satisfied"
 297        fi
 298        return $eval_ret
 299}
 300
 301test_have_prereq () {
 302        # prerequisites can be concatenated with ','
 303        save_IFS=$IFS
 304        IFS=,
 305        set -- $*
 306        IFS=$save_IFS
 307
 308        total_prereq=0
 309        ok_prereq=0
 310        missing_prereq=
 311
 312        for prerequisite
 313        do
 314                case "$prerequisite" in
 315                !*)
 316                        negative_prereq=t
 317                        prerequisite=${prerequisite#!}
 318                        ;;
 319                *)
 320                        negative_prereq=
 321                esac
 322
 323                case " $lazily_tested_prereq " in
 324                *" $prerequisite "*)
 325                        ;;
 326                *)
 327                        case " $lazily_testable_prereq " in
 328                        *" $prerequisite "*)
 329                                eval "script=\$test_prereq_lazily_$prerequisite" &&
 330                                if test_run_lazy_prereq_ "$prerequisite" "$script"
 331                                then
 332                                        test_set_prereq $prerequisite
 333                                fi
 334                                lazily_tested_prereq="$lazily_tested_prereq$prerequisite "
 335                        esac
 336                        ;;
 337                esac
 338
 339                total_prereq=$(($total_prereq + 1))
 340                case "$satisfied_prereq" in
 341                *" $prerequisite "*)
 342                        satisfied_this_prereq=t
 343                        ;;
 344                *)
 345                        satisfied_this_prereq=
 346                esac
 347
 348                case "$satisfied_this_prereq,$negative_prereq" in
 349                t,|,t)
 350                        ok_prereq=$(($ok_prereq + 1))
 351                        ;;
 352                *)
 353                        # Keep a list of missing prerequisites; restore
 354                        # the negative marker if necessary.
 355                        prerequisite=${negative_prereq:+!}$prerequisite
 356                        if test -z "$missing_prereq"
 357                        then
 358                                missing_prereq=$prerequisite
 359                        else
 360                                missing_prereq="$prerequisite,$missing_prereq"
 361                        fi
 362                esac
 363        done
 364
 365        test $total_prereq = $ok_prereq
 366}
 367
 368test_declared_prereq () {
 369        case ",$test_prereq," in
 370        *,$1,*)
 371                return 0
 372                ;;
 373        esac
 374        return 1
 375}
 376
 377test_verify_prereq () {
 378        test -z "$test_prereq" ||
 379        expr >/dev/null "$test_prereq" : '[A-Z0-9_,!]*$' ||
 380        error "bug in the test script: '$test_prereq' does not look like a prereq"
 381}
 382
 383test_expect_failure () {
 384        test_start_
 385        test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
 386        test "$#" = 2 ||
 387        error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-failure"
 388        test_verify_prereq
 389        export test_prereq
 390        if ! test_skip "$@"
 391        then
 392                say >&3 "checking known breakage: $2"
 393                if test_run_ "$2" expecting_failure
 394                then
 395                        test_known_broken_ok_ "$1"
 396                else
 397                        test_known_broken_failure_ "$1"
 398                fi
 399        fi
 400        test_finish_
 401}
 402
 403test_expect_success () {
 404        test_start_
 405        test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
 406        test "$#" = 2 ||
 407        error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-success"
 408        test_verify_prereq
 409        export test_prereq
 410        if ! test_skip "$@"
 411        then
 412                say >&3 "expecting success: $2"
 413                if test_run_ "$2"
 414                then
 415                        test_ok_ "$1"
 416                else
 417                        test_failure_ "$@"
 418                fi
 419        fi
 420        test_finish_
 421}
 422
 423# test_external runs external test scripts that provide continuous
 424# test output about their progress, and succeeds/fails on
 425# zero/non-zero exit code.  It outputs the test output on stdout even
 426# in non-verbose mode, and announces the external script with "# run
 427# <n>: ..." before running it.  When providing relative paths, keep in
 428# mind that all scripts run in "trash directory".
 429# Usage: test_external description command arguments...
 430# Example: test_external 'Perl API' perl ../path/to/test.pl
 431test_external () {
 432        test "$#" = 4 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
 433        test "$#" = 3 ||
 434        error >&5 "bug in the test script: not 3 or 4 parameters to test_external"
 435        descr="$1"
 436        shift
 437        test_verify_prereq
 438        export test_prereq
 439        if ! test_skip "$descr" "$@"
 440        then
 441                # Announce the script to reduce confusion about the
 442                # test output that follows.
 443                say_color "" "# run $test_count: $descr ($*)"
 444                # Export TEST_DIRECTORY, TRASH_DIRECTORY and GIT_TEST_LONG
 445                # to be able to use them in script
 446                export TEST_DIRECTORY TRASH_DIRECTORY GIT_TEST_LONG
 447                # Run command; redirect its stderr to &4 as in
 448                # test_run_, but keep its stdout on our stdout even in
 449                # non-verbose mode.
 450                "$@" 2>&4
 451                if test "$?" = 0
 452                then
 453                        if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
 454                                test_ok_ "$descr"
 455                        else
 456                                say_color "" "# test_external test $descr was ok"
 457                                test_success=$(($test_success + 1))
 458                        fi
 459                else
 460                        if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
 461                                test_failure_ "$descr" "$@"
 462                        else
 463                                say_color error "# test_external test $descr failed: $@"
 464                                test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1))
 465                        fi
 466                fi
 467        fi
 468}
 469
 470# Like test_external, but in addition tests that the command generated
 471# no output on stderr.
 472test_external_without_stderr () {
 473        # The temporary file has no (and must have no) security
 474        # implications.
 475        tmp=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}
 476        stderr="$tmp/git-external-stderr.$$.tmp"
 477        test_external "$@" 4> "$stderr"
 478        test -f "$stderr" || error "Internal error: $stderr disappeared."
 479        descr="no stderr: $1"
 480        shift
 481        say >&3 "# expecting no stderr from previous command"
 482        if test ! -s "$stderr"
 483        then
 484                rm "$stderr"
 485
 486                if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
 487                        test_ok_ "$descr"
 488                else
 489                        say_color "" "# test_external_without_stderr test $descr was ok"
 490                        test_success=$(($test_success + 1))
 491                fi
 492        else
 493                if test "$verbose" = t
 494                then
 495                        output=$(echo; echo "# Stderr is:"; cat "$stderr")
 496                else
 497                        output=
 498                fi
 499                # rm first in case test_failure exits.
 500                rm "$stderr"
 501                if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
 502                        test_failure_ "$descr" "$@" "$output"
 503                else
 504                        say_color error "# test_external_without_stderr test $descr failed: $@: $output"
 505                        test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1))
 506                fi
 507        fi
 508}
 509
 510# debugging-friendly alternatives to "test [-f|-d|-e]"
 511# The commands test the existence or non-existence of $1. $2 can be
 512# given to provide a more precise diagnosis.
 513test_path_is_file () {
 514        if ! test -f "$1"
 515        then
 516                echo "File $1 doesn't exist. $2"
 517                false
 518        fi
 519}
 520
 521test_path_is_dir () {
 522        if ! test -d "$1"
 523        then
 524                echo "Directory $1 doesn't exist. $2"
 525                false
 526        fi
 527}
 528
 529# Check if the directory exists and is empty as expected, barf otherwise.
 530test_dir_is_empty () {
 531        test_path_is_dir "$1" &&
 532        if test -n "$(ls -a1 "$1" | egrep -v '^\.\.?$')"
 533        then
 534                echo "Directory '$1' is not empty, it contains:"
 535                ls -la "$1"
 536                return 1
 537        fi
 538}
 539
 540test_path_is_missing () {
 541        if test -e "$1"
 542        then
 543                echo "Path exists:"
 544                ls -ld "$1"
 545                if test $# -ge 1
 546                then
 547                        echo "$*"
 548                fi
 549                false
 550        fi
 551}
 552
 553# test_line_count checks that a file has the number of lines it
 554# ought to. For example:
 555#
 556#       test_expect_success 'produce exactly one line of output' '
 557#               do something >output &&
 558#               test_line_count = 1 output
 559#       '
 560#
 561# is like "test $(wc -l <output) = 1" except that it passes the
 562# output through when the number of lines is wrong.
 563
 564test_line_count () {
 565        if test $# != 3
 566        then
 567                error "bug in the test script: not 3 parameters to test_line_count"
 568        elif ! test $(wc -l <"$3") "$1" "$2"
 569        then
 570                echo "test_line_count: line count for $3 !$1 $2"
 571                cat "$3"
 572                return 1
 573        fi
 574}
 575
 576# Returns success if a comma separated string of keywords ($1) contains a
 577# given keyword ($2).
 578# Examples:
 579# `list_contains "foo,bar" bar` returns 0
 580# `list_contains "foo" bar` returns 1
 581
 582list_contains () {
 583        case ",$1," in
 584        *,$2,*)
 585                return 0
 586                ;;
 587        esac
 588        return 1
 589}
 590
 591# This is not among top-level (test_expect_success | test_expect_failure)
 592# but is a prefix that can be used in the test script, like:
 593#
 594#       test_expect_success 'complain and die' '
 595#           do something &&
 596#           do something else &&
 597#           test_must_fail git checkout ../outerspace
 598#       '
 599#
 600# Writing this as "! git checkout ../outerspace" is wrong, because
 601# the failure could be due to a segv.  We want a controlled failure.
 602
 603test_must_fail () {
 604        case "$1" in
 605        ok=*)
 606                _test_ok=${1#ok=}
 607                shift
 608                ;;
 609        *)
 610                _test_ok=
 611                ;;
 612        esac
 613        "$@"
 614        exit_code=$?
 615        if test $exit_code -eq 0 && ! list_contains "$_test_ok" success
 616        then
 617                echo >&2 "test_must_fail: command succeeded: $*"
 618                return 1
 619        elif test_match_signal 13 $exit_code && list_contains "$_test_ok" sigpipe
 620        then
 621                return 0
 622        elif test $exit_code -gt 129 && test $exit_code -le 192
 623        then
 624                echo >&2 "test_must_fail: died by signal $(($exit_code - 128)): $*"
 625                return 1
 626        elif test $exit_code -eq 127
 627        then
 628                echo >&2 "test_must_fail: command not found: $*"
 629                return 1
 630        elif test $exit_code -eq 126
 631        then
 632                echo >&2 "test_must_fail: valgrind error: $*"
 633                return 1
 634        fi
 635        return 0
 636}
 637
 638# Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerates success, too.  This is
 639# meant to be used in contexts like:
 640#
 641#       test_expect_success 'some command works without configuration' '
 642#               test_might_fail git config --unset all.configuration &&
 643#               do something
 644#       '
 645#
 646# Writing "git config --unset all.configuration || :" would be wrong,
 647# because we want to notice if it fails due to segv.
 648
 649test_might_fail () {
 650        test_must_fail ok=success "$@"
 651}
 652
 653# Similar to test_must_fail and test_might_fail, but check that a
 654# given command exited with a given exit code. Meant to be used as:
 655#
 656#       test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' '
 657#               test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master
 658#       '
 659
 660test_expect_code () {
 661        want_code=$1
 662        shift
 663        "$@"
 664        exit_code=$?
 665        if test $exit_code = $want_code
 666        then
 667                return 0
 668        fi
 669
 670        echo >&2 "test_expect_code: command exited with $exit_code, we wanted $want_code $*"
 671        return 1
 672}
 673
 674# test_cmp is a helper function to compare actual and expected output.
 675# You can use it like:
 676#
 677#       test_expect_success 'foo works' '
 678#               echo expected >expected &&
 679#               foo >actual &&
 680#               test_cmp expected actual
 681#       '
 682#
 683# This could be written as either "cmp" or "diff -u", but:
 684# - cmp's output is not nearly as easy to read as diff -u
 685# - not all diff versions understand "-u"
 686
 687test_cmp() {
 688        $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
 689}
 690
 691# test_cmp_bin - helper to compare binary files
 692
 693test_cmp_bin() {
 694        cmp "$@"
 695}
 696
 697# Call any command "$@" but be more verbose about its
 698# failure. This is handy for commands like "test" which do
 699# not output anything when they fail.
 700verbose () {
 701        "$@" && return 0
 702        echo >&2 "command failed: $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")"
 703        return 1
 704}
 705
 706# Check if the file expected to be empty is indeed empty, and barfs
 707# otherwise.
 708
 709test_must_be_empty () {
 710        if test -s "$1"
 711        then
 712                echo "'$1' is not empty, it contains:"
 713                cat "$1"
 714                return 1
 715        fi
 716}
 717
 718# Tests that its two parameters refer to the same revision
 719test_cmp_rev () {
 720        git rev-parse --verify "$1" >expect.rev &&
 721        git rev-parse --verify "$2" >actual.rev &&
 722        test_cmp expect.rev actual.rev
 723}
 724
 725# Print a sequence of integers in increasing order, either with
 726# two arguments (start and end):
 727#
 728#     test_seq 1 5 -- outputs 1 2 3 4 5 one line at a time
 729#
 730# or with one argument (end), in which case it starts counting
 731# from 1.
 732
 733test_seq () {
 734        case $# in
 735        1)      set 1 "$@" ;;
 736        2)      ;;
 737        *)      error "bug in the test script: not 1 or 2 parameters to test_seq" ;;
 738        esac
 739        test_seq_counter__=$1
 740        while test "$test_seq_counter__" -le "$2"
 741        do
 742                echo "$test_seq_counter__"
 743                test_seq_counter__=$(( $test_seq_counter__ + 1 ))
 744        done
 745}
 746
 747# This function can be used to schedule some commands to be run
 748# unconditionally at the end of the test to restore sanity:
 749#
 750#       test_expect_success 'test core.capslock' '
 751#               git config core.capslock true &&
 752#               test_when_finished "git config --unset core.capslock" &&
 753#               hello world
 754#       '
 755#
 756# That would be roughly equivalent to
 757#
 758#       test_expect_success 'test core.capslock' '
 759#               git config core.capslock true &&
 760#               hello world
 761#               git config --unset core.capslock
 762#       '
 763#
 764# except that the greeting and config --unset must both succeed for
 765# the test to pass.
 766#
 767# Note that under --immediate mode, no clean-up is done to help diagnose
 768# what went wrong.
 769
 770test_when_finished () {
 771        # We cannot detect when we are in a subshell in general, but by
 772        # doing so on Bash is better than nothing (the test will
 773        # silently pass on other shells).
 774        test "${BASH_SUBSHELL-0}" = 0 ||
 775        error "bug in test script: test_when_finished does nothing in a subshell"
 776        test_cleanup="{ $*
 777                } && (exit \"\$eval_ret\"); eval_ret=\$?; $test_cleanup"
 778}
 779
 780# Most tests can use the created repository, but some may need to create more.
 781# Usage: test_create_repo <directory>
 782test_create_repo () {
 783        test "$#" = 1 ||
 784        error "bug in the test script: not 1 parameter to test-create-repo"
 785        repo="$1"
 786        mkdir -p "$repo"
 787        (
 788                cd "$repo" || error "Cannot setup test environment"
 789                "$GIT_EXEC_PATH/git-init" "--template=$GIT_BUILD_DIR/templates/blt/" >&3 2>&4 ||
 790                error "cannot run git init -- have you built things yet?"
 791                mv .git/hooks .git/hooks-disabled
 792        ) || exit
 793}
 794
 795# This function helps on symlink challenged file systems when it is not
 796# important that the file system entry is a symbolic link.
 797# Use test_ln_s_add instead of "ln -s x y && git add y" to add a
 798# symbolic link entry y to the index.
 799
 800test_ln_s_add () {
 801        if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS
 802        then
 803                ln -s "$1" "$2" &&
 804                git update-index --add "$2"
 805        else
 806                printf '%s' "$1" >"$2" &&
 807                ln_s_obj=$(git hash-object -w "$2") &&
 808                git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000 $ln_s_obj "$2" &&
 809                # pick up stat info from the file
 810                git update-index "$2"
 811        fi
 812}
 813
 814# This function writes out its parameters, one per line
 815test_write_lines () {
 816        printf "%s\n" "$@"
 817}
 818
 819perl () {
 820        command "$PERL_PATH" "$@"
 821}
 822
 823# Is the value one of the various ways to spell a boolean true/false?
 824test_normalize_bool () {
 825        git -c magic.variable="$1" config --bool magic.variable 2>/dev/null
 826}
 827
 828# Given a variable $1, normalize the value of it to one of "true",
 829# "false", or "auto" and store the result to it.
 830#
 831#     test_tristate GIT_TEST_HTTPD
 832#
 833# A variable set to an empty string is set to 'false'.
 834# A variable set to 'false' or 'auto' keeps its value.
 835# Anything else is set to 'true'.
 836# An unset variable defaults to 'auto'.
 837#
 838# The last rule is to allow people to set the variable to an empty
 839# string and export it to decline testing the particular feature
 840# for versions both before and after this change.  We used to treat
 841# both unset and empty variable as a signal for "do not test" and
 842# took any non-empty string as "please test".
 843
 844test_tristate () {
 845        if eval "test x\"\${$1+isset}\" = xisset"
 846        then
 847                # explicitly set
 848                eval "
 849                        case \"\$$1\" in
 850                        '')     $1=false ;;
 851                        auto)   ;;
 852                        *)      $1=\$(test_normalize_bool \$$1 || echo true) ;;
 853                        esac
 854                "
 855        else
 856                eval "$1=auto"
 857        fi
 858}
 859
 860# Exit the test suite, either by skipping all remaining tests or by
 861# exiting with an error. If "$1" is "auto", we then we assume we were
 862# opportunistically trying to set up some tests and we skip. If it is
 863# "true", then we report a failure.
 864#
 865# The error/skip message should be given by $2.
 866#
 867test_skip_or_die () {
 868        case "$1" in
 869        auto)
 870                skip_all=$2
 871                test_done
 872                ;;
 873        true)
 874                error "$2"
 875                ;;
 876        *)
 877                error "BUG: test tristate is '$1' (real error: $2)"
 878        esac
 879}
 880
 881# The following mingw_* functions obey POSIX shell syntax, but are actually
 882# bash scripts, and are meant to be used only with bash on Windows.
 883
 884# A test_cmp function that treats LF and CRLF equal and avoids to fork
 885# diff when possible.
 886mingw_test_cmp () {
 887        # Read text into shell variables and compare them. If the results
 888        # are different, use regular diff to report the difference.
 889        local test_cmp_a= test_cmp_b=
 890
 891        # When text came from stdin (one argument is '-') we must feed it
 892        # to diff.
 893        local stdin_for_diff=
 894
 895        # Since it is difficult to detect the difference between an
 896        # empty input file and a failure to read the files, we go straight
 897        # to diff if one of the inputs is empty.
 898        if test -s "$1" && test -s "$2"
 899        then
 900                # regular case: both files non-empty
 901                mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1"
 902                mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2"
 903        elif test -s "$1" && test "$2" = -
 904        then
 905                # read 2nd file from stdin
 906                mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1"
 907                mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b
 908                stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_b"'
 909        elif test "$1" = - && test -s "$2"
 910        then
 911                # read 1st file from stdin
 912                mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a
 913                mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2"
 914                stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_a"'
 915        fi
 916        test -n "$test_cmp_a" &&
 917        test -n "$test_cmp_b" &&
 918        test "$test_cmp_a" = "$test_cmp_b" ||
 919        eval "diff -u \"\$@\" $stdin_for_diff"
 920}
 921
 922# $1 is the name of the shell variable to fill in
 923mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ () {
 924        # Read line-wise using LF as the line separator
 925        # and use IFS to strip CR.
 926        local line
 927        while :
 928        do
 929                if IFS=$'\r' read -r -d $'\n' line
 930                then
 931                        # good
 932                        line=$line$'\n'
 933                else
 934                        # we get here at EOF, but also if the last line
 935                        # was not terminated by LF; in the latter case,
 936                        # some text was read
 937                        if test -z "$line"
 938                        then
 939                                # EOF, really
 940                                break
 941                        fi
 942                fi
 943                eval "$1=\$$1\$line"
 944        done
 945}
 946
 947# Like "env FOO=BAR some-program", but run inside a subshell, which means
 948# it also works for shell functions (though those functions cannot impact
 949# the environment outside of the test_env invocation).
 950test_env () {
 951        (
 952                while test $# -gt 0
 953                do
 954                        case "$1" in
 955                        *=*)
 956                                eval "${1%%=*}=\${1#*=}"
 957                                eval "export ${1%%=*}"
 958                                shift
 959                                ;;
 960                        *)
 961                                "$@"
 962                                exit
 963                                ;;
 964                        esac
 965                done
 966        )
 967}
 968
 969# Returns true if the numeric exit code in "$2" represents the expected signal
 970# in "$1". Signals should be given numerically.
 971test_match_signal () {
 972        if test "$2" = "$((128 + $1))"
 973        then
 974                # POSIX
 975                return 0
 976        elif test "$2" = "$((256 + $1))"
 977        then
 978                # ksh
 979                return 0
 980        fi
 981        return 1
 982}
 983
 984# Read up to "$1" bytes (or to EOF) from stdin and write them to stdout.
 985test_copy_bytes () {
 986        perl -e '
 987                my $len = $ARGV[1];
 988                while ($len > 0) {
 989                        my $s;
 990                        my $nread = sysread(STDIN, $s, $len);
 991                        die "cannot read: $!" unless defined($nread);
 992                        print $s;
 993                        $len -= $nread;
 994                }
 995        ' - "$1"
 996}