Re: [PATCH v8 01/11] t6302: for-each-ref tests for ref-filter APIs

> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Matthieu Moy
>> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Could we have a tweak for people without gpg?
>>>
>>> I guess we need stg like
>>>
>>> if ! test_have_prereq GPG; then
>>>         skip_all='skipping for-each-ref tests, gpg not available'
>>>         test_done
>>> fi
>>>
>>> since we need GPG in the setup test and almost all other tests will rely
>>> on it.
>>>
>>
>> Does this need to be there? I see a lot of test files which need GPG, and since
>> this test file contains tests which rely on it, without it, it would
>> be kinda useless
>> anyways?
>
> In many cases, the tests look like
>
> . lib-gpg.sh
>
> test_expect_success 'test that does not use GPG' '
>         ...
> '
>
> test_expect_success GPG 'test that does use GPG' '
>         ...
> '
>
> so you can't decide in lib-gpg.sh that you'll skip all tests, because
> you would skip some tests that could be ran without gpg.
>