Re: tests for git-p4

From: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
Date: Jul 13, 2008, 12:26 UTC
Message-ID: <200807131426.09688.simon@lst.de>
In-Reply-To: <e48c5e540807120524rabdcfa6vd91c16ef1b0f80a0@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 12 July 2008 14:24:10 Matt McClure wrote:

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> I'm planning to write a "p4-fast-export" that will facilitate using
> Bazaar on projects maintained in Perforce.  I'd like to reuse code
> from git-p4 since it appears to have much of the functionality I want.
>  In fact, the main reason I can't just use git-p4 today is that it
> does too much: it pushes the Perforce fast-export representation
> directly into Git.  I'm going to work on covering the existing
> functionality in tests before I start modifying the code, and I could
> try to write those tests such that they'll be useful to the Git
> project as well.
>
> Would my tests be of interest to git-p4's authors?  Is there any
> existing test framework for git-p4 that I missed?

There are currently no automated tests for git-p4. I would certainly be interested, but I forsee difficulties testing the interaction with p4 in a general way independent from a specific server setup.

Simon