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-x:: 86 Turn on shell tracing (i.e., `set -x`) during the tests 87 themselves. Implies `--verbose`. Note that this can cause 88 failures in some tests which redirect and test the 89 output of shell functions. Use with caution. 90 91-d:: 92--debug:: 93 This may help the person who is developing a new test. 94 It causes the command defined with test_debug to run. 95 The "trash" directory (used to store all temporary data 96 during testing) is not deleted even if there are no 97 failed tests so that you can inspect its contents after 98 the test finished. 99 100-i:: 101--immediate:: 102 This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first 103 failed test. Cleanup commands requested with 104 test_when_finished are not executed if the test failed, 105 in order to keep the state for inspection by the tester 106 to diagnose the bug. 107 108-l:: 109--long-tests:: 110 This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where 111 available), for more exhaustive testing. 112 113-r:: 114--run=<test-selector>:: 115 Run only the subset of tests indicated by 116 <test-selector>. See section "Skipping Tests" below for 117 <test-selector> syntax. 118 119--valgrind=<tool>:: 120 Execute all Git binaries under valgrind tool <tool> and exit 121 with status 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will 122 only stop the test script when running under -i). 123 124 Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and 125 not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For 126 convenience, it also implies --tee. 127 128 <tool> defaults to 'memcheck', just like valgrind itself. 129 Other particularly useful choices include 'helgrind' and 130 'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind 131 installation. 132 133 As a special case, <tool> can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses 134 memcheck but disables --track-origins. Use this if you are 135 running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory 136 issues. 137 138 Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no, 139 as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not 140 interesting. In order to run a single command under the same 141 conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to 142 the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under 143 't/valgrind/bin/'. 144 145--valgrind-only=<pattern>:: 146 Like --valgrind, but the effect is limited to tests with 147 numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is 148 simply the running count of the test within the file. 149 150--tee:: 151 In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, 152 write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. 153 As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to 154 run the tests with this option in parallel. 155 156--with-dashes:: 157 By default tests are run without dashed forms of 158 commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses 159 wrappers from ../bin-wrappers). Use this option to include 160 the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all 161 the dashed forms of commands. This option is currently 162 implied by other options like --valgrind and 163 GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. 164 165--root=<directory>:: 166 Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during 167 testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory. 168 Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) 169 can massively speed up the test suite. 170 171You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to 172the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. 173You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various 174test-* support programs, templates, and perl libraries are used. 175If your installed git is incomplete, it will silently test parts of 176your built version instead. 177 178When using GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, you can also set GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH to 179override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what 180GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation). 181GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`. 182 183 184Skipping Tests 185-------------- 186 187In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding 188due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or 189filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes 190as pathnames. 191 192You should be able to say something like 193 194 $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh 195 196and even: 197 198 $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make 199 200to omit such tests. The value of the environment variable is a 201SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip, 202and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole 203test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which 204particular test to skip. 205 206For an individual test suite --run could be used to specify that 207only some tests should be run or that some tests should be 208excluded from a run. 209 210The argument for --run is a list of individual test numbers or 211ranges with an optional negation prefix that define what tests in 212a test suite to include in the run. A range is two numbers 213separated with a dash and matches a range of tests with both ends 214been included. You may omit the first or the second number to 215mean "from the first test" or "up to the very last test" 216respectively. 217 218Optional prefix of '!' means that the test or a range of tests 219should be excluded from the run. 220 221If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range the initial 222set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!' 223all the tests are added to the initial set. After initial set is 224determined every test number or range is added or excluded from 225the set one by one, from left to right. 226 227Individual numbers or ranges could be separated either by a space 228or a comma. 229 230For example, to run only tests up to a specific test (21), one 231could do this: 232 233 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-21' 234 235or this: 236 237 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-21' 238 239Common case is to run several setup tests (1, 2, 3) and then a 240specific test (21) that relies on that setup: 241 242 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1 2 3 21' 243 244or: 245 246 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run=1,2,3,21 247 248or: 249 250 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-3 21' 251 252As noted above, the test set is built going though items left to 253right, so this: 254 255 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-4 !3' 256 257will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that comes later have higher 258precendence. It means that this: 259 260 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!3 1-4' 261 262would just run tests from 1 to 4, including 3. 263 264You may use negation with ranges. The following will run all 265test in the test suite except from 7 up to 11: 266 267 $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!7-11' 268 269Some tests in a test suite rely on the previous tests performing 270certain actions, specifically some tests are designated as 271"setup" test, so you cannot _arbitrarily_ disable one test and 272expect the rest to function correctly. 273 274--run is mostly useful when you want to focus on a specific test 275and know what setup is needed for it. Or when you want to run 276everything up to a certain test. 277 278 279Naming Tests 280------------ 281 282The test files are named as: 283 284 tNNNN-commandname-details.sh 285 286where N is a decimal digit. 287 288First digit tells the family: 289 290 0 - the absolute basics and global stuff 291 1 - the basic commands concerning database 292 2 - the basic commands concerning the working tree 293 3 - the other basic commands (e.g. ls-files) 294 4 - the diff commands 295 5 - the pull and exporting commands 296 6 - the revision tree commands (even e.g. merge-base) 297 7 - the porcelainish commands concerning the working tree 298 8 - the porcelainish commands concerning forensics 299 9 - the git tools 300 301Second digit tells the particular command we are testing. 302 303Third digit (optionally) tells the particular switch or group of switches 304we are testing. 305 306If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not 307the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above 308pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the 309top-level test script and tries to run all of them. Care is 310especially needed if you are creating a common test library 311file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may 312not be suitable for standalone execution. 313 314 315Writing Tests 316------------- 317 318The test script is written as a shell script. It should start 319with the standard "#!/bin/sh" with copyright notices, and an 320assignment to variable 'test_description', like this: 321 322 #!/bin/sh 323 # 324 # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano 325 # 326 327 test_description='xxx test (option --frotz) 328 329 This test registers the following structure in the cache 330 and tries to run git-ls-files with option --frotz.' 331 332 333Source 'test-lib.sh' 334-------------------- 335 336After assigning test_description, the test script should source 337test-lib.sh like this: 338 339 . ./test-lib.sh 340 341This test harness library does the following things: 342 343 - If the script is invoked with command line argument --help 344 (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits. 345 346 - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database 347 and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash 348 directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by 349 the --root option documented above. 350 351 - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to 352 use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave 353 consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), 354 --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. 355 356Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind 357------------------------------------- 358 359Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do 360when writing tests. 361 362Do: 363 364 - Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions. 365 366 Even code that isn't a test per se, but merely some setup code 367 should be inside a test assertion. 368 369 - Chain your test assertions 370 371 Write test code like this: 372 373 git merge foo && 374 git push bar && 375 test ... 376 377 Instead of: 378 379 git merge hla 380 git push gh 381 test ... 382 383 That way all of the commands in your tests will succeed or fail. If 384 you must ignore the return value of something, consider using a 385 helper function (e.g. use sane_unset instead of unset, in order 386 to avoid unportable return value for unsetting a variable that was 387 already unset), or prepending the command with test_might_fail or 388 test_must_fail. 389 390 - Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage" 391 below. 392 393 Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics; if a new function you added 394 doesn't have any coverage, then you're probably doing something wrong, 395 but having 100% coverage doesn't necessarily mean that you tested 396 everything. 397 398 Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better 399 than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics. 400 401 - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated, 402 construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD, 403 $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on 404 Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. 405 For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. 406 407Don't: 408 409 - exit() within a <script> part. 410 411 The harness will catch this as a programming error of the test. 412 Use test_done instead if you need to stop the tests early (see 413 "Skipping tests" below). 414 415 - use '! git cmd' when you want to make sure the git command exits 416 with failure in a controlled way by calling "die()". Instead, 417 use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git 418 dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault). 419 420 On the other hand, don't use test_must_fail for running regular 421 platform commands; just use '! cmd'. We are not in the business 422 of verifying that the world given to us sanely works. 423 424 - use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our 425 friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before 426 the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that 427 does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. Note that we 428 provide a "perl" function which uses $PERL_PATH under the hood, so 429 you do not need to worry when simply running perl in the test scripts 430 (but you do, for example, on a shebang line or in a sub script 431 created via "write_script"). 432 433 - use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script can 434 be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). 435 436 - chdir around in tests. It is not sufficient to chdir to 437 somewhere and then chdir back to the original location later in 438 the test, as any intermediate step can fail and abort the test, 439 causing the next test to start in an unexpected directory. Do so 440 inside a subshell if necessary. 441 442 - Break the TAP output 443 444 The raw output from your test may be interpreted by a TAP harness. TAP 445 harnesses will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step 446 on their toes in these areas: 447 448 - Don't print lines like "$x..$y" where $x and $y are integers. 449 450 - Don't print lines that begin with "ok" or "not ok". 451 452 TAP harnesses expect a line that begins with either "ok" and "not 453 ok" to signal a test passed or failed (and our harness already 454 produces such lines), so your script shouldn't emit such lines to 455 their output. 456 457 You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar 458 (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar) 459 but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), 460 it'll complain if anything is amiss. 461 462Keep in mind: 463 464 - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error 465 streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or 466 "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they 467 are shown to help debugging the tests. 468 469 470Skipping tests 471-------------- 472 473If you need to skip tests you should do so by using the three-arg form 474of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section 475below), e.g.: 476 477 test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' ' 478 perl -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" 479 ' 480 481The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't 482have the PERL and other optional dependencies get an indication of how 483many tests they're missing. 484 485If the test code is too hairy for that (i.e. does a lot of setup work 486outside test assertions) you can also skip all remaining tests by 487setting skip_all and immediately call test_done: 488 489 if ! test_have_prereq PERL 490 then 491 skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' 492 test_done 493 fi 494 495The string you give to skip_all will be used as an explanation for why 496the test was skipped. 497 498End with test_done 499------------------ 500 501Your script will be a sequence of tests, using helper functions 502from the test harness library. At the end of the script, call 503'test_done'. 504 505 506Test harness library 507-------------------- 508 509There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness 510library for your script to use. 511 512 - test_expect_success [<prereq>] <message> <script> 513 514 Usually takes two strings as parameters, and evaluates the 515 <script>. If it yields success, test is considered 516 successful. <message> should state what it is testing. 517 518 Example: 519 520 test_expect_success \ 521 'git-write-tree should be able to write an empty tree.' \ 522 'tree=$(git-write-tree)' 523 524 If you supply three parameters the first will be taken to be a 525 prerequisite; see the test_set_prereq and test_have_prereq 526 documentation below: 527 528 test_expect_success TTY 'git --paginate rev-list uses a pager' \ 529 ' ... ' 530 531 You can also supply a comma-separated list of prerequisites, in the 532 rare case where your test depends on more than one: 533 534 test_expect_success PERL,PYTHON 'yo dawg' \ 535 ' test $(perl -E 'print eval "1 +" . qx[python -c "print 2"]') == "4" ' 536 537 - test_expect_failure [<prereq>] <message> <script> 538 539 This is NOT the opposite of test_expect_success, but is used 540 to mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage. Unlike 541 the usual test_expect_success tests, which say "ok" on 542 success and "FAIL" on failure, this will say "FIXED" on 543 success and "still broken" on failure. Failures from these 544 tests won't cause -i (immediate) to stop. 545 546 Like test_expect_success this function can optionally use a three 547 argument invocation with a prerequisite as the first argument. 548 549 - test_debug <script> 550 551 This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only 552 when the test script is started with --debug command line 553 argument. This is primarily meant for use during the 554 development of a new test script. 555 556 - test_done 557 558 Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose 559 is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and 560 exit with an appropriate error code. 561 562 - test_tick 563 564 Make commit and tag names consistent by setting the author and 565 committer times to defined state. Subsequent calls will 566 advance the times by a fixed amount. 567 568 - test_commit <message> [<filename> [<contents>]] 569 570 Creates a commit with the given message, committing the given 571 file with the given contents (default for both is to reuse the 572 message string), and adds a tag (again reusing the message 573 string as name). Calls test_tick to make the SHA-1s 574 reproducible. 575 576 - test_merge <message> <commit-or-tag> 577 578 Merges the given rev using the given message. Like test_commit, 579 creates a tag and calls test_tick before committing. 580 581 - test_set_prereq <prereq> 582 583 Set a test prerequisite to be used later with test_have_prereq. The 584 test-lib will set some prerequisites for you, see the 585 "Prerequisites" section below for a full list of these. 586 587 Others you can set yourself and use later with either 588 test_have_prereq directly, or the three argument invocation of 589 test_expect_success and test_expect_failure. 590 591 - test_have_prereq <prereq> 592 593 Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with 594 test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip 595 all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite: 596 597 if ! test_have_prereq PERL 598 then 599 skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' 600 test_done 601 fi 602 603 - test_external [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> 604 605 Execute a <script> with an <external> interpreter (like perl). This 606 was added for tests like t9700-perl-git.sh which do most of their 607 work in an external test script. 608 609 test_external \ 610 'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \ 611 perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl 612 613 If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the 614 test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first 615 test_external* function. See t9700-perl-git.sh for an example. 616 617 # The external test will outputs its own plan 618 test_external_has_tap=1 619 620 - test_external_without_stderr [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> 621 622 Like test_external but fail if there's any output on stderr, 623 instead of checking the exit code. 624 625 test_external_without_stderr \ 626 'Perl API' \ 627 perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl 628 629 - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command> 630 631 Run a command and ensure that it exits with the given exit code. 632 For example: 633 634 test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' ' 635 test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master 636 ' 637 638 - test_must_fail <git-command> 639 640 Run a git command and ensure it fails in a controlled way. Use 641 this instead of "! <git-command>". When git-command dies due to a 642 segfault, test_must_fail diagnoses it as an error; "! <git-command>" 643 treats it as just another expected failure, which would let such a 644 bug go unnoticed. 645 646 - test_might_fail <git-command> 647 648 Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this 649 instead of "<git-command> || :" to catch failures due to segv. 650 651 - test_cmp <expected> <actual> 652 653 Check whether the content of the <actual> file matches the 654 <expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more 655 helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option. 656 657 - test_line_count (= | -lt | -ge | ...) <length> <file> 658 659 Check whether a file has the length it is expected to. 660 661 - test_path_is_file <path> [<diagnosis>] 662 test_path_is_dir <path> [<diagnosis>] 663 test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>] 664 665 Check if the named path is a file, if the named path is a 666 directory, or if the named path does not exist, respectively, 667 and fail otherwise, showing the <diagnosis> text. 668 669 - test_when_finished <script> 670 671 Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run to clean up 672 at the end of the current test. If some clean-up command 673 fails, the test will not pass. 674 675 Example: 676 677 test_expect_success 'branch pointing to non-commit' ' 678 git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} >.git/refs/heads/invalid && 679 test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/invalid" && 680 ... 681 ' 682 683 - test_write_lines <lines> 684 685 Write <lines> on standard output, one line per argument. 686 Useful to prepare multi-line files in a compact form. 687 688 Example: 689 690 test_write_lines a b c d e f g >foo 691 692 Is a more compact equivalent of: 693 cat >foo <<-EOF 694 a 695 b 696 c 697 d 698 e 699 f 700 g 701 EOF 702 703 704 - test_pause 705 706 This command is useful for writing and debugging tests and must be 707 removed before submitting. It halts the execution of the test and 708 spawns a shell in the trash directory. Exit the shell to continue 709 the test. Example: 710 711 test_expect_success 'test' ' 712 git do-something >actual && 713 test_pause && 714 test_cmp expected actual 715 ' 716 717 - test_ln_s_add <path1> <path2> 718 719 This function helps systems whose filesystem does not support symbolic 720 links. Use it to add a symbolic link entry to the index when it is not 721 important that the file system entry is a symbolic link, i.e., instead 722 of the sequence 723 724 ln -s foo bar && 725 git add bar 726 727 Sometimes it is possible to split a test in a part that does not need 728 the symbolic link in the file system and a part that does; then only 729 the latter part need be protected by a SYMLINKS prerequisite (see below). 730 731Prerequisites 732------------- 733 734These are the prerequisites that the test library predefines with 735test_have_prereq. 736 737See the prereq argument to the test_* functions in the "Test harness 738library" section above and the "test_have_prereq" function for how to 739use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. 740 741 - PYTHON 742 743 Git wasn't compiled with NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that 744 need Python with this. 745 746 - PERL 747 748 Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. 749 750 Even without the PERL prerequisite, tests can assume there is a 751 usable perl interpreter at $PERL_PATH, though it need not be 752 particularly modern. 753 754 - POSIXPERM 755 756 The filesystem supports POSIX style permission bits. 757 758 - BSLASHPSPEC 759 760 Backslashes in pathspec are not directory separators. This is not 761 set on Windows. See 6fd1106a for details. 762 763 - EXECKEEPSPID 764 765 The process retains the same pid across exec(2). See fb9a2bea for 766 details. 767 768 - PIPE 769 770 The filesystem we're on supports creation of FIFOs (named pipes) 771 via mkfifo(1). 772 773 - SYMLINKS 774 775 The filesystem we're on supports symbolic links. E.g. a FAT 776 filesystem doesn't support these. See 704a3143 for details. 777 778 - SANITY 779 780 Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an 781 unwritable file is expected to fail correctly. 782 783 - LIBPCRE 784 785 Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests 786 that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these. 787 788 - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS 789 790 Test is run on a case insensitive file system. 791 792 - UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC 793 794 Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd) 795 to precomposed utf-8 (nfc). 796 797Tips for Writing Tests 798---------------------- 799 800As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best 801source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate 802t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in 803that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it 804knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/, 805and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain 80640-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh 807because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is 808to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal 809drastically. For these people, after making certain changes, 810not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And 811such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these 812otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by 813an update to t0000-basic.sh. 814 815However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core 816GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate 817knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts 818hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats 819the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of 820validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing 821updating when such a change to the internal happens, so do _not_ 822do it and leave the low level of validation to t0000-basic.sh. 823 824Test coverage 825------------- 826 827You can use the coverage tests to find code paths that are not being 828used or properly exercised yet. 829 830To do that, run the coverage target at the top-level (not in the t/ 831directory): 832 833 make coverage 834 835That'll compile Git with GCC's coverage arguments, and generate a test 836report with gcov after the tests finish. Running the coverage tests 837can take a while, since running the tests in parallel is incompatible 838with GCC's coverage mode. 839 840After the tests have run you can generate a list of untested 841functions: 842 843 make coverage-untested-functions 844 845You can also generate a detailed per-file HTML report using the 846Devel::Cover module. To install it do: 847 848 # On Debian or Ubuntu: 849 sudo aptitude install libdevel-cover-perl 850 851 # From the CPAN with cpanminus 852 curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo --self-upgrade 853 cpanm --sudo Devel::Cover 854 855Then, at the top-level: 856 857 make cover_db_html 858 859That'll generate a detailed cover report in the "cover_db_html" 860directory, which you can then copy to a webserver, or inspect locally 861in a browser.