Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] t3300-*.sh: Fix a TAP parse error

2012-07-25 Thread Ramsay Jones
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
 This version of the patch only moves code to determine the test
 prerequisite to the outer level, while leaving the 'setup' aspects
 of the first test in place.
 
 I guess I don't see the point.

You don't see the point of fixing the TAP Parse error? :-D

The current convention of don't do
 anything complicated outside test assertions is easy to explain.
 What new convention are you suggesting to replace it?

Hmm, well I guess I'm not going to suggest anything!

However, what is anything complicated?

At the end of test-lib.sh we find:

# test whether the filesystem supports symbolic links
ln -s x y 2/dev/null  test -h y 2/dev/null  test_set_prereq SYMLINKS
rm -f y

# When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that
# things are writable when they shouldn't be.
test -w / || test_set_prereq SANITY

Is this too complicated? If not, why not? If yes, should it be added to
a test assertion?

Would it be acceptable for me to add some code, here at the end of
test-lib.sh, to set the TABS_IN_FILENAME test prerequisite and use it
in tests t3300-funny-names.sh, t3902-quoted.sh, t3600-rm.sh,
t4016-diff-quote.sh and t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh?

How about some of the test library files:

diff-lib.sh  lib-git-p4.shlib-read-tree.sh
gitweb-lib.shlib-git-svn.sh   lib-rebase.sh
lib-bash.sh  lib-gpg.sh*  lib-t6000.sh
lib-credential.sh*   lib-httpd.sh lib-terminal.sh
lib-cvs.sh   lib-pager.sh test-lib-functions.sh
lib-diff-alternative.sh  lib-patch-mode.shtest-lib.sh
lib-gettext.sh   lib-prereq-FILEMODE.sh
lib-git-daemon.shlib-read-tree-m-3way.sh

Several of these files contain executable code (rather than just a
library of functions). For example, look at lib-cvs.sh, lib-httpd.sh,
and lib-prereq-FILEMODE.sh. Is this code too complicated?

Would it be acceptable for me to create an lib-prereq-TABSINFILE.sh
file so that I could source it only in the test files that require
the TABS_IN_FILENAME prerequisite?

ATB,
Ramsay Jones

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Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] t3300-*.sh: Fix a TAP parse error

2012-07-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi,

Ramsay Jones wrote:

 Hi Jonathan,

 This version of the patch only moves code to determine the test
 prerequisite to the outer level, while leaving the 'setup' aspects
 of the first test in place.

I guess I don't see the point.  The current convention of don't do
anything complicated outside test assertions is easy to explain.
What new convention are you suggesting to replace it?

Thanks,
Jonathan
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