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Re: [PATCH v2] t/README: suggest how to leave test early with failure

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Mar 29, 2020, 07:23 UTC
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On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:49 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Over time, we added the support to our test framework to make it
> easy to leave a test early with failure, but it was not clearly
> documented in t/README to help developers writing new tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
> @@ -550,6 +550,40 @@ Here are the "do's:"
> +       test_expect_success 'test three things' '
> +           for i in one two three
> +           do
> +               test_something "$i"
> +           done &&
> +           test_something_else
> +       '
> +
> +   Because the status of the loop itself is the exit status of the
> +   test_something in the last round, the loop does not fail when
> +   "test_something" for "one" or "two".  This is not what you want.
s/"two"/& fails/
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Message 36 of 55 in “Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR builds”
  1. 0/2 Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR buildsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 23, 2020
  2. 2/2 tests(gpg): increase verbosity to allow debuggingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 23, 2020
  3. Jeff KingMar 23, 2020
  4. Jeff KingMar 23, 2020
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2020
  6. Jeff KingMar 23, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2020
  8. Jeff KingMar 23, 2020
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2020
  10. Jeff KingMar 24, 2020
  11. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2020
  12. Jeff KingMar 24, 2020
  13. 1/2 tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 23, 2020
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2020
  15. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2020
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2020
  17. Johannes SchindelinMar 24, 2020
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2020
  19. 0/5 Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR buildsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 25, 2020
  20. 1/5 tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 25, 2020
  21. 2/5 t/lib-gpg.sh: stop pretending to be a stand-alone scriptJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 25, 2020
  22. Jeff KingMar 26, 2020
  23. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2020
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2020
  25. 3/5 tests: turn GPG, GPGSM and RFC1991 into lazy prereqsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 25, 2020
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2020
  27. Jeff KingMar 26, 2020
  28. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2020
  29. Jeff KingMar 27, 2020
  30. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2020
  31. Eric SunshineMar 27, 2020
  32. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2020
  33. Jeff KingMar 28, 2020
  34. Jeff KingMar 28, 2020
  35. t/README: suggest how to leave test early with failureJunio C Hamano, Mar 28, 2020
  36. Eric SunshineMar 29, 2020
  37. Jeff KingMar 29, 2020
  38. Johannes SchindelinMar 30, 2020
  39. Jeff KingMar 31, 2020
  40. 4/5 tests: do not let lazy prereqs inside `test_expect_*` turn off tracingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 25, 2020
  41. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2020
  42. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2020
  43. Jeff KingMar 26, 2020
  44. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2020
  45. 5/5 tests: increase the verbosity of the GPG-related prereqsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 25, 2020
  46. Jeff KingMar 26, 2020
  47. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2020
  48. 0/5 Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR buildsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2020
  49. 2/5 t/lib-gpg.sh: stop pretending to be a stand-alone scriptJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2020
  50. 1/5 tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on WindowsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2020
  51. 3/5 tests: do not let lazy prereqs inside `test_expect_*` turn off tracingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2020
  52. 4/5 tests: turn GPG, GPGSM and RFC1991 into lazy prereqsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2020
  53. 5/5 tests: increase the verbosity of the GPG-related prereqsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Mar 26, 2020
  54. Jeff KingMar 27, 2020
  55. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2020

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