Hi Ævar, On Tue, 14 May 2019, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, May 14 2019, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > What would you think about a mode where random test cases are skipped? > > It would have to make sure to provide a way to recreate the problem, > > e.g. giving a string that defines exactly which test cases were > > skipped. > > > > I am *sure* that tons of test scripts would fail with that, and we > > would probably have to special-case the `setup` "test cases", and we > > would have to clean up quite a few scripts to *not* execute random > > stuff outside of `test_expect_*`... > > I think it would be neat, but unrelated to and overkill for spotting the > practical problem we have now, which is that we *know* we skip some of > this now on some platforms/setups due to prereqs. I understand, but I am still worried that this is a lot of work for an incomplete fix. For example, the t7600-merge.sh test script that set off this conversation has two prereqs that are unmet on Windows: GPG and EXECKEEPSPID. On Azure Pipelines' macOS agents, it is only GPG that is unmet. So switching off all prereqs would not help macOS with e.g. a bug where the GPG test cases are skipped but the EXECKEEPSPID test case is not. Ciao, Dscho
