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Re: [PATCH] t/test-lib: print pretty msg when git isn't built

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2012, 20:52 UTC
Message-ID
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> When tests were run without building git, the following error message
> was displayed:
>
>     .: 54: Can't open /path/to/git/source/t/../GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS

Does the test stop due to this error, or it just goes on and hit another error? I am guessing that it is the latter, and if that is the case, a more important change to describe here is

> Change this to display a more user-friendly error message:
>
>      error: you do not seem to have built git yet.
... "and stop the execution."
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> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> ---
>  t/t0000-basic.sh |   10 ----------
>  t/test-lib.sh    |    6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh
> index ae6a3f0..08677df 100755
> --- a/t/t0000-basic.sh
> +++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh
> @@ -18,16 +18,6 @@ swapping compression and hashing order, the person who is making the
>  modification *should* take notice and update the test vectors here.
>  '
>  
> -################################################################
> -# It appears that people try to run tests without building...
> -
> -../git >/dev/null
> -if test $? != 1
> -then
> -	echo >&2 'You do not seem to have built git yet.'
> -	exit 1
> -fi
> -
>  . ./test-lib.sh
>  
>  ################################################################
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index f8e3733..c00452a 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ then
>  fi
>  GIT_BUILD_DIR="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/..
>  
> +if ! test -r "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
> +then
> +	echo 'error: you do not seem to have built git yet.' >&2
> +	exit 1
> +fi
> +
>  . "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
>  export PERL_PATH SHELL_PATH
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