From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:37:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tests: move code to run completion tests under bash into a helper library
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2isAvmEhaTJpg8qsT967ghkvjyU1OAnTLMZSb5MSsnXw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F8D19B8.1040004@viscovery.net>

2012/4/17 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Am 4/17/2012 0:09, schrieb SZEDER Gábor:
>> diff --git a/t/lib-completion.sh b/t/lib-completion.sh
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 00000000..3d85feb2
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/t/lib-completion.sh
>> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
>> +#!/bin/sh
>> +#
>> +# Ensures that tests of the completion script are run under Bash.
>> +
>> +if test -n "$BASH" && test -z "$POSIXLY_CORRECT"; then
>> +     # we are in full-on bash mode
>> +     true
>> +elif type bash >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>> +     # execute in full-on bash mode
>> +     unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
>> +     exec bash "$0" "$@"
>> +else
>> +     echo '1..0 #SKIP skipping bash completion tests; bash not available'
>> +     exit 0
>> +fi
>
> I wonder what this 'echo...;exit' is about (I do so since I saw it the
> first time when Felipe submitted his patch). Shouldn't it be more like:
>
>        skip_all='skipping bash completion tests; bash not available'
>        test_done

It should, if the test library was loaded at that point, but it isn't.
BTW, I didn't write that code.

In any case, what the user sees is exactly the same, except without color.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras