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[PATCH v4 04/31] log: add exhaustive tests for pattern style options & config

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
May 25, 2017, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID
<20170525194535.9324-5-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20170525194535.9324-1-avarab@gmail.com>

Add exhaustive tests for how the different grep.patternType options & the corresponding command-line options affect git-log.

Before this change it was possible to patch revision.c so that the --basic-regexp option was synonymous with --extended-regexp, and --perl-regexp wasn't recognized at all, and still have 100% of the test suite pass.

This was because the first test being modified here, added in commit 34a4ae55b2 ("log --grep: use the same helper to set -E/-F options as "git grep"", 2012-10-03), didn't actually check whether we'd enabled extended regular expressions as distinct from re-toggling non-fixed string support.

Fix that by changing the pattern to a pattern that'll only match if --extended-regexp option is provided, but won't match under the default --basic-regexp option.

Other potential regressions were possible since there were no tests for the rest of the combinations of grep.patternType configuration toggles & corresponding git-log command-line options. Add exhaustive tests for those.

The patterns being passed to fixed/basic/extended/PCRE are carefully crafted to return the wrong thing if the grep engine were to pick any other matching method than the one it's told to use.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 t/t4202-log.sh | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh
index 1c7d6729c6..948fd719d2 100755
--- a/t/t4202-log.sh
+++ b/t/t4202-log.sh
@@ -262,7 +262,30 @@ test_expect_success 'log --grep -i' '
 
 test_expect_success 'log -F -E --grep=<ere> uses ere' '
 	echo second >expect &&
-	git log -1 --pretty="tformat:%s" -F -E --grep=s.c.nd >actual &&
+	# basic would need \(s\) to do the same
+	git log -1 --pretty="tformat:%s" -F -E --grep="(s).c.nd" >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success PCRE 'log -F -E --perl-regexp --grep=<pcre> uses PCRE' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf num_commits" &&
+	git init num_commits &&
+	(
+		cd num_commits &&
+		test_commit 1d &&
+		test_commit 2e
+	) &&
+
+	# In PCRE \d in [\d] is like saying "0-9", and matches the 2
+	# in 2e...
+	echo 2e >expect &&
+	git -C num_commits log -1 --pretty="tformat:%s" -F -E --perl-regexp --grep="[\d]" >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+	# ...in POSIX basic and extended it is the same as [d],
+	# i.e. "d", which matches 1d, but does not match 2e.
+	echo 1d >expect &&
+	git -C num_commits log -1 --pretty="tformat:%s" -F -E --grep="[\d]" >actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
@@ -280,6 +303,79 @@ test_expect_success 'log with grep.patternType configuration and command line' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'log with various grep.patternType configurations & command-lines' '
+	git init pattern-type &&
+	(
+		cd pattern-type &&
+		test_commit 1 file A &&
+
+		# The tagname is overridden here because creating a
+		# tag called "(1|2)" as test_commit would otherwise
+		# implicitly do would fail on e.g. MINGW.
+		test_commit "(1|2)" file B 2 &&
+
+		echo "(1|2)" >expect.fixed &&
+		cp expect.fixed expect.basic &&
+		cp expect.fixed expect.extended &&
+		cp expect.fixed expect.perl &&
+
+		# A strcmp-like match with fixed.
+		git -c grep.patternType=fixed log --pretty=tformat:%s \
+			--grep="(1|2)" >actual.fixed &&
+
+		# POSIX basic matches (, | and ) literally.
+		git -c grep.patternType=basic log --pretty=tformat:%s \
+			--grep="(.|.)" >actual.basic &&
+
+		# POSIX extended needs to have | escaped to match it
+		# literally, whereas under basic this is the same as
+		# (|2), i.e. it would also match "1". This test checks
+		# for extended by asserting that it is not matching
+		# what basic would match.
+		git -c grep.patternType=extended log --pretty=tformat:%s \
+			--grep="\|2" >actual.extended &&
+		if test_have_prereq PCRE
+		then
+			# Only PCRE would match [\d]\| with only
+			# "(1|2)" due to [\d]. POSIX basic would match
+			# both it and "1" since similarly to the
+			# extended match above it is the same as
+			# \([\d]\|\). POSIX extended would
+			# match neither.
+			git -c grep.patternType=perl log --pretty=tformat:%s \
+				--grep="[\d]\|" >actual.perl &&
+			test_cmp expect.perl actual.perl
+		fi &&
+		test_cmp expect.fixed actual.fixed &&
+		test_cmp expect.basic actual.basic &&
+		test_cmp expect.extended actual.extended &&
+
+		git log --pretty=tformat:%s -F \
+			--grep="(1|2)" >actual.fixed.short-arg &&
+		git log --pretty=tformat:%s -E \
+			--grep="\|2" >actual.extended.short-arg &&
+		test_cmp expect.fixed actual.fixed.short-arg &&
+		test_cmp expect.extended actual.extended.short-arg &&
+
+		git log --pretty=tformat:%s --fixed-strings \
+			--grep="(1|2)" >actual.fixed.long-arg &&
+		git log --pretty=tformat:%s --basic-regexp \
+			--grep="(.|.)" >actual.basic.long-arg &&
+		git log --pretty=tformat:%s --extended-regexp \
+			--grep="\|2" >actual.extended.long-arg &&
+		if test_have_prereq PCRE
+		then
+			git log --pretty=tformat:%s --perl-regexp \
+				--grep="[\d]\|" >actual.perl.long-arg &&
+			test_cmp expect.perl actual.perl.long-arg
+
+		fi &&
+		test_cmp expect.fixed actual.fixed.long-arg &&
+		test_cmp expect.basic actual.basic.long-arg &&
+		test_cmp expect.extended actual.extended.long-arg
+	)
+'
+
 cat > expect <<EOF
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  1. 00/31 Easy to review grep & pre-PCRE changesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  2. 01/31 Makefile & configure: reword inaccurate comment about PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  3. 02/31 grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexpÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  4. 04/31 log: add exhaustive tests for pattern style options & configÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  5. 03/31 test-lib: rename the LIBPCRE prerequisite to PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  6. 05/31 log: make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexpÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  7. 07/31 grep: add a test for backreferences in PCRE patternsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  8. 08/31 grep: change non-ASCII -i test to stop using --debugÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  9. 06/31 grep: add a test asserting that --perl-regexp dies when !PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  10. 09/31 grep: add tests for --threads=N and grep.threadsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  11. 10/31 grep: amend submodule recursion test for regex engine testingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  12. 11/31 grep: add tests for grep pattern types being passed to submodulesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  13. 12/31 grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 testsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  14. 13/31 grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharactersÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  15. 14/31 grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patternsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  16. 16/31 perf: emit progress output when unpacking & buildingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  17. 18/31 perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -FÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  18. 17/31 perf: add a comparison test of grep regex enginesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  19. 15/31 perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't doÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  20. 19/31 perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex enginesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  21. 20/31 perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -FÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  22. 24/31 grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  23. 23/31 grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a functionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  24. 21/31 grep: catch a missing enum in switch statementÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  25. 22/31 grep: remove redundant regflags assignmentsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  26. 28/31 pack-objects & index-pack: add test for --threads warningÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  27. 30/31 grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warnÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  28. 25/31 grep: change internal *pcre* variable & function names to be *pcre1*Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  29. 31/31 grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  30. 29/31 pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threadsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  31. 27/31 test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisiteÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017
  32. 26/31 grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declarationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 25, 2017

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