Re: Puzzled by a t9500 test failure

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2008, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhc7g8257.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081013234851.GY4856@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> With recent tip of 'master':
>> 
>>     $ make
>>     $ mkdir t/trash
>>     $ cd t && sh t9500-*.sh -i
>> 
>> fails at the very first test.  Can anybody figure out why?
>
> Hmmph.  Near as I can tell its because gitweb.log has this in it:
>
> $ cat gitweb.log
> [Mon Oct 13 23:43:36 2008] gitweb.perl: Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /home/sop/local/maint-git/t/../gitweb/gitweb.perl line 1811.
> [Mon Oct 13 23:43:36 2008] gitweb.perl: Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at /home/sop/local/maint-git/t/../gitweb/gitweb.perl line 3772.
> HASH..
>
> The test does a grep for '[[]' and if it matches, fails.  I'm not
> sure why this started showing up now.  Obviously I merged something
> that failed the test suite, but I was pretty sure I had run the full
> set before publishing anything.

Nothing as far as I can tell changed while you were the pumpking.

I was just wondering why the presense of that extra, should-be-unused, t/trash directory affects the outcome of the test.