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[RFC PATCH] tests: fix PATH for GIT_TEST_INSTALLED tests

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GMGuillaume Maudoux <layus.on@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 14, 2018, 00:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20180414003338.27091-1-layus.on@gail.com>
From: Guillaume Maudoux <layus.on@gmail.com>

When running tests on an existing git installation with GIT_TEST_INSTALLED (as described in t/README), the test helpers are missing in the PATH.

This fixes the test suite in a way that allows all the tests to pass.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Maudoux <layus.on@gmail.com>
---

This is more a bug report than a real patch. The issue is described above and this patch does solve it. I however think that someone with more knowledge should refactor all that chunck of code that was last changed in 2010.

In particular, it seems that the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED path does not use bin-wrappers at all. This may imply that --with-dashes also breaks tests.

 t/test-lib.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git t/test-lib.sh t/test-lib.sh
index 7740d511d..0d51261f7 100644
--- t/test-lib.sh
+++ t/test-lib.sh
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ elif test -n "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED"
 then
 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=$($GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path)  ||
 	error "Cannot run git from $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED."
-	PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$GIT_BUILD_DIR:$PATH
+	PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper:$GIT_BUILD_DIR:$PATH
 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH:-$GIT_EXEC_PATH}
 else # normal case, use ../bin-wrappers only unless $with_dashes:
 	git_bin_dir="$GIT_BUILD_DIR/bin-wrappers"
-- 
2.17.0
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  1. tests: fix PATH for GIT_TEST_INSTALLED testsGuillaume Maudoux, Apr 14, 2018
  2. Johannes SchindelinApr 14, 2018
  3. Guillaume Maudoux (Layus)Apr 14, 2018

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