Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> While looking at the "git describe" tests due to the on-list
> %(describe) discussion I discovered that the feature added in
> 30b1c7ad9d (describe: don't abort too early when searching tags,
> 2020-02-26) has never been tested for.
>
> This is because it defined a custom test function that called
> test_expect_success, which then got called inside another top-level
> test_expect_success. Thus even if it failed we'd pass the test.
Thanks. I think I've seen something similar recently. I wonder if
it is an easy mistake our test linter can catch.
> This series fixes that issue, and makes some general improvements to
> the "describe" tests. I then make test_expect_{success,failure} return
> 1 to catch these sorts of issues in the future, which required fixes
> to a couple of svn tests that ran with "set -e".
OK.
> I was on the fence about whether to send this after the recent rc0,
> but figured that since it's test-only Junio might want to pick it up,
Even if it is too late, giving earlier exposure would by itself be a
good thing (just don't forget to resend after the dust settles, so
that it would land eventually).
> and possibly for the next rc in case we'd like to do some pre-release
> testing for this never-before-tested feature added in 2.26.0 (although
> the actual implementation looks fine to me).
Thanks; it obviously is a lower priority as we have survived with
the broken test for a long time since 2.26 ;-)
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (10):
> describe tests: improve test for --work-tree & --dirty
> describe tests: refactor away from glob matching
> describe tests: always assert empty stderr from "describe"
> test-lib functions: add an --annotated-tag option to "test_commit"
> describe tests: convert setup to use test_commit
> describe tests: fix nested "test_expect_success" call
> describe tests: support -C in "check_describe"
> svn tests: remove legacy re-setup from init-clone test
> svn tests: refactor away a "set -e" in test body
> test-lib: return 1 from test_expect_{success,failure}
>
> t/t1403-show-ref.sh | 6 +-
> t/t6120-describe.sh | 193 +++++++++++++++-------------------
> t/t9117-git-svn-init-clone.sh | 6 --
> t/t9148-git-svn-propset.sh | 27 ++---
> t/test-lib-functions.sh | 20 +++-
> 5 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
