Compliment the existing GIT_TEST_INSTALLED variable added in [1] with
one that allows for testing a git built in a directory that's not
"../".
Instead of "test this installed git" ("GIT_TEST_INSTALLED"), this new
"GIT_TEST_BUILD_DIR" is a "test this built directory over
there". E.g. this will pass all tests:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/git/git.git git1
cp -R git1 git2
make -C git1
[apply this change to git2]
(cd git2 && GIT_TEST_BUILD_DIR="$PWD/../git1" make -C t prove)
This facility and file-based instructions to have the test suite use
another build directory[2] are mutually exclusive, but in a subsequent
commit we'll make CMake use this instead.
1. 6720721e152 (test-lib.sh: Allow running the test suite against
installed git, 2009-03-16)
2. 350a005e366 (cmake: avoid editing t/test-lib.sh, 2022-10-18)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
t/README | 3 +++
t/test-lib.sh | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 979b2d4833d..fc0daef2e41 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what
GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation).
GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`.
+Similar to GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, GIT_TEST_BUILD_DIR can be pointed to
+another git.git checkout's build directory, to test its built binaries
+against the tests in this checkout.
Skipping Tests
--------------
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 36358811a0f..388774a0aa0 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ fi
# For CMake the top-level source directory is different from our build
# directory. With the top-level Makefile they're the same.
GIT_SOURCE_DIR="$GIT_BUILD_DIR"
-if test -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR"
+if test -n "$GIT_TEST_BUILD_DIR"
+then
+ GIT_BUILD_DIR="$GIT_TEST_BUILD_DIR"
+elif test -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR"
then
GIT_BUILD_DIR="$(cat "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR")" || exit 1
# On Windows, we must convert Windows paths lest they contain a colon
--
2.38.0.1451.g86b35f4140a
