Hi Ævar,
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Fix a couple of tests that would potentially fail under
> GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS=true.
>
> I missed these when annotating other tests in dfe1a17df9 ("tests: add
> a special setup where prerequisites fail", 2019-05-13) because on my
> system I can only reproduce this failure when I run the tests as
> "root", since the tests happen to depend on whether we can fall back
> on GECOS info or not. I.e. they'd usually fail to look up the ident
> info anyway, but not always.
I had to read the commit message (in particular the oneline) a couple of
times, and I have to admit that I wish it was a bit clearer...
From the explanation, I would have assumed that those two test cases fail
often, anyway, so they shouldn't care whether `FAIL_PREREQS` is in effect.
The only reason why they should be exempt from the `FAIL_PREREQS` mode
that I can think of is that later test cases would depend on them, but how
can they? Those test cases would also have to have the `AUTOIDENT` prereq,
and they would be skipped under `FAIL_PREREQS`, too, no?
In other words, I struggle to understand why this patch is necessary.
Could you help me understand?
Ciao,
Dscho
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> t/t0007-git-var.sh | 2 +-
> t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t0007-git-var.sh b/t/t0007-git-var.sh
> index 5868a87352..1f600e2cae 100755
> --- a/t/t0007-git-var.sh
> +++ b/t/t0007-git-var.sh
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ test_expect_success 'get GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT' '
> test_cmp expect actual
> '
>
> -test_expect_success !AUTOIDENT 'requested identites are strict' '
> +test_expect_success !FAIL_PREREQS,!AUTOIDENT 'requested identites are strict' '
> (
> sane_unset GIT_COMMITTER_NAME &&
> sane_unset GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL &&
> diff --git a/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh b/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh
> index 5733d9cd34..14c92e4c25 100755
> --- a/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh
> +++ b/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh
> @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ echo editor started >"$(pwd)/.git/result"
> exit 0
> EOF
>
> -test_expect_success !AUTOIDENT 'do not fire editor when committer is bogus' '
> +test_expect_success !FAIL_PREREQS,!AUTOIDENT 'do not fire editor when committer is bogus' '
> >.git/result &&
>
> echo >>negative &&
> --
> 2.22.0.455.g172b71a6c5
>
>
