From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:56:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: fix autostash
Message-ID: <20130608165611.GB3109@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=qVXL=DtJzYRGFLQQh3_-cGC_t_zpaiTL9KVKN4--mVg@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> How else am I supposed to write them?  If there is a stale state from
> the previous test, there isn't too much I can do.  Or should I be
> cleaning up state at the beginning of each test, instead of at the
> end?

That's one strategy.  "test_when_finished" to restore the set-up
state is another.

Making tests skippable unless labelled otherwise is currently an
aspirational goal rather than a practical one.  Hopefully some day
we'll get there and the test harness can start checking it. :)  It
makes reorganizing test scripts, for example by reordering tests, much
easier.

Thanks,
Jonathan