Re: [PATCH/RFC] tests: WIP Infrastructure for Git smoke testing

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jul 29, 2010, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID: <201007300011.50330.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1280438455-16255-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>   - Is this worthwhile. Are there developers / packagers / other
>     interested parties here who'd be interested in actually running
>     smoke testers? It should be really easy to set one up.

I'm all for it!

I think I could put a cronjob on a RHEL5.4 machine, and regularly run it on my own openSuSE 11.3 install.

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> Tarball contents:
> 
>     $ tar xzvf git-smoke.tar.gz
>     t0004-unwritable.sh
>     t0001-init.sh
>     t0002-gitfile.sh
>     t0005-signals.sh
>     t0000-basic.sh
>     t0003-attributes.sh
>     t0006-date.sh
>     meta.yml

That's the only thing I found confusing about this: why are they named as if they were shellscripts?

Also, installing TAP::Harness::Archive was a bit hairy but that's CPAN's fault...

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Thomas Rast
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