Hi Guillaume,
On Sat, 14 Apr 2018, Guillaume Maudoux wrote:
> From: Guillaume Maudoux <layus.on@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When running tests on an existing git installation with
> GIT_TEST_INSTALLED (as described in t/README), the test helpers are
> missing in the PATH.
>
> This fixes the test suite in a way that allows all the tests to pass.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Maudoux <layus.on@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This is more a bug report than a real patch. The issue is described
> above and this patch does solve it. I however think that someone with
> more knowledge should refactor all that chunck of code that was last
> changed in 2010.
>
> In particular, it seems that the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED path does not use
> bin-wrappers at all. This may imply that --with-dashes also breaks
> tests.
>
> t/test-lib.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git t/test-lib.sh t/test-lib.sh
> index 7740d511d..0d51261f7 100644
> --- t/test-lib.sh
> +++ t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ elif test -n "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED"
> then
> GIT_EXEC_PATH=$($GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path) ||
> error "Cannot run git from $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED."
> - PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$GIT_BUILD_DIR:$PATH
> + PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper:$GIT_BUILD_DIR:$PATH
> GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH:-$GIT_EXEC_PATH}
> else # normal case, use ../bin-wrappers only unless $with_dashes:
> git_bin_dir="$GIT_BUILD_DIR/bin-wrappers"
This is essentially identical to what we have in
http://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/e408b7517d
So: ACK.
You might also want to go a bit further and let the test suite run with
GIT_TEST_INSTALLED when Git has not actually be built, but only the test
helpers. I started something along those lines here:
http://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/a80f047abc5
I always meant to come back to polish those patches and submit them to the
Git mailing list, so: thank you for getting the ball rolling.
FWIW my use case is that I want to test a "MinGit" package, i.e. a subset
of Git for Windows intended to cater to third-party applications requiring
Git functionality (but not requiring any interactive parts of it).
What is your use case?
Ciao,
Johannes
