From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:48:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] unit-tests: add TEST_RUN
Message-ID: <xmqqsewdb8d1.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <954d67b1-8819-4bfc-ae10-f04beca5419a@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/07/2024 16:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> So, perhaps test_if_XXXXXX() but it is not quite clear to me when
>> TEST_RUN() wants to return true, so I cannot come up with an
>> appropriate value to fill the XXXXXX part.  If this is about
>> honoring GIT_SKIP_TESTS or something similar, then I may suggest
>> test_if_enabled(), but that does not seem like it.  So...
>
> TEST_RUN() returns true if the test has not been skipped i.e. the test
> should be run. At the moment the only way to skip a test is to call
> test_skip_all() in a previous test. In the future I expect we'll add
> something like the "--run" option we have for the integration tests.

Thanks, so test_if_enabled() is not all that off the mark after all.