Core GIT Tests ============== This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The first part of this short document describes how to run the tests and read their output. When fixing the tools or adding enhancements, you are strongly encouraged to add tests in this directory to cover what you are trying to fix or enhance. The later part of this short document describes how your test scripts should be organized. Running Tests ------------- The easiest way to run tests is to say "make". This runs all the tests. *** t0000-basic.sh *** ok 1 - .git/objects should be empty after git init in an empty repo. ok 2 - .git/objects should have 3 subdirectories. ok 3 - success is reported like this ... ok 43 - very long name in the index handled sanely # fixed 1 known breakage(s) # still have 1 known breakage(s) # passed all remaining 42 test(s) 1..43 *** t0001-init.sh *** ok 1 - plain ok 2 - plain with GIT_WORK_TREE ok 3 - plain bare Since the tests all output TAP (see http://testanything.org) they can be run with any TAP harness. Here's an example of parallel testing powered by a recent version of prove(1): $ prove --timer --jobs 15 ./t[0-9]*.sh [19:17:33] ./t0005-signals.sh ................................... ok 36 ms [19:17:33] ./t0022-crlf-rename.sh ............................... ok 69 ms [19:17:33] ./t0024-crlf-archive.sh .............................. ok 154 ms [19:17:33] ./t0004-unwritable.sh ................................ ok 289 ms [19:17:33] ./t0002-gitfile.sh ................................... ok 480 ms ===( 102;0 25/? 6/? 5/? 16/? 1/? 4/? 2/? 1/? 3/? 1... )=== prove and other harnesses come with a lot of useful options. The --state option in particular is very useful: # Repeat until no more failures $ prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh You can give DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove on the make command (or define it in config.mak) to cause "make test" to run tests under prove. GIT_PROVE_OPTS can be used to pass additional options, e.g. $ make DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS='--timer --jobs 16' test You can also run each test individually from command line, like this: $ sh ./t3010-ls-files-killed-modified.sh ok 1 - git update-index --add to add various paths. ok 2 - git ls-files -k to show killed files. ok 3 - validate git ls-files -k output. ok 4 - git ls-files -m to show modified files. ok 5 - validate git ls-files -m output. # passed all 5 test(s) 1..5 You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS appropriately before running "make". -v:: --verbose:: This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the command being run and their output if any are also output. --verbose-only=:: Like --verbose, but the effect is limited to tests with numbers matching . The number matched against is simply the running count of the test within the file. -x:: Turn on shell tracing (i.e., `set -x`) during the tests themselves. Implies `--verbose`. Ignored in test scripts that set the variable 'test_untraceable' to a non-empty value, unless it's run with a Bash version supporting BASH_XTRACEFD, i.e. v4.1 or later. -d:: --debug:: This may help the person who is developing a new test. It causes the command defined with test_debug to run. The "trash" directory (used to store all temporary data during testing) is not deleted even if there are no failed tests so that you can inspect its contents after the test finished. -i:: --immediate:: This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first failed test. Cleanup commands requested with test_when_finished are not executed if the test failed, in order to keep the state for inspection by the tester to diagnose the bug. -l:: --long-tests:: This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where available), for more exhaustive testing. -r:: --run=:: Run only the subset of tests indicated by . See section "Skipping Tests" below for syntax. --valgrind=:: Execute all Git binaries under valgrind tool and exit with status 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will only stop the test script when running under -i). Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For convenience, it also implies --tee. defaults to 'memcheck', just like valgrind itself. Other particularly useful choices include 'helgrind' and 'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind installation. As a special case, can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses memcheck but disables --track-origins. Use this if you are running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory issues. Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no, as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not interesting. In order to run a single command under the same conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under 't/valgrind/bin/'. --valgrind-only=:: Like --valgrind, but the effect is limited to tests with numbers matching . The number matched against is simply the running count of the test within the file. --tee:: In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to run the tests with this option in parallel. --verbose-log:: Write verbose output to the same logfile as `--tee`, but do _not_ write it to stdout. Unlike `--tee --verbose`, this option is safe to use when stdout is being consumed by a TAP parser like `prove`. Implies `--tee` and `--verbose`. --with-dashes:: By default tests are run without dashed forms of commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses wrappers from ../bin-wrappers). Use this option to include the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all the dashed forms of commands. This option is currently implied by other options like --valgrind and GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. --root=:: Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during testing under , instead of the t/ directory. Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) can massively speed up the test suite. --chain-lint:: --no-chain-lint:: If --chain-lint is enabled, the test harness will check each test to make sure that it properly "&&-chains" all commands (so that a failure in the middle does not go unnoticed by the final exit code of the test). This check is performed in addition to running the tests themselves. You may also enable or disable this feature by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT environment variable to "1" or "0", respectively. You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various test-* support programs, templates, and perl libraries are used. If your installed git is incomplete, it will silently test parts of your built version instead. When using GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, you can also set GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH to override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation). GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`. Skipping Tests -------------- In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes as pathnames. You should be able to say something like $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh and even: $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make to omit such tests. The value of the environment variable is a SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip, and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which particular test to skip. For an individual test suite --run could be used to specify that only some tests should be run or that some tests should be excluded from a run. The argument for --run is a list of individual test numbers or ranges with an optional negation prefix that define what tests in a test suite to include in the run. A range is two numbers separated with a dash and matches a range of tests with both ends been included. You may omit the first or the second number to mean "from the first test" or "up to the very last test" respectively. Optional prefix of '!' means that the test or a range of tests should be excluded from the run. If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range the initial set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!' all the tests are added to the initial set. After initial set is determined every test number or range is added or excluded from the set one by one, from left to right. Individual numbers or ranges could be separated either by a space or a comma. For example, to run only tests up to a specific test (21), one could do this: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-21' or this: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-21' Common case is to run several setup tests (1, 2, 3) and then a specific test (21) that relies on that setup: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1 2 3 21' or: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run=1,2,3,21 or: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-3 21' As noted above, the test set is built by going through the items from left to right, so this: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-4 !3' will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that come later have higher precedence. It means that this: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!3 1-4' would just run tests from 1 to 4, including 3. You may use negation with ranges. The following will run all test in the test suite except from 7 up to 11: $ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!7-11' Some tests in a test suite rely on the previous tests performing certain actions, specifically some tests are designated as "setup" test, so you cannot _arbitrarily_ disable one test and expect the rest to function correctly. --run is mostly useful when you want to focus on a specific test and know what setup is needed for it. Or when you want to run everything up to a certain test. Running tests with special setups --------------------------------- The whole test suite could be run to test some special features that cannot be easily covered by a few specific test cases. These could be enabled by running the test suite with correct GIT_TEST_ environment set. GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX= forces split-index mode on the whole test suite. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. GIT_TEST_FULL_IN_PACK_ARRAY= exercises the uncommon pack-objects code path where there are more than 1024 packs even if the actual number of packs in repository is below this limit. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. GIT_TEST_OE_SIZE= exercises the uncommon pack-objects code path where we do not cache object size in memory and read it from existing packs on demand. This normally only happens when the object size is over 2GB. This variable forces the code path on any object larger than bytes. GIT_TEST_OE_DELTA_SIZE= exercises the uncomon pack-objects code path where deltas larger than this limit require extra memory allocation for bookkeeping. GIT_TEST_VALIDATE_INDEX_CACHE_ENTRIES= checks that cache-tree records are valid when the index is written out or after a merge. This is mostly to catch missing invalidation. Default is true. Naming Tests ------------ The test files are named as: tNNNN-commandname-details.sh where N is a decimal digit. First digit tells the family: 0 - the absolute basics and global stuff 1 - the basic commands concerning database 2 - the basic commands concerning the working tree 3 - the other basic commands (e.g. ls-files) 4 - the diff commands 5 - the pull and exporting commands 6 - the revision tree commands (even e.g. merge-base) 7 - the porcelainish commands concerning the working tree 8 - the porcelainish commands concerning forensics 9 - the git tools Second digit tells the particular command we are testing. Third digit (optionally) tells the particular switch or group of switches we are testing. If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the top-level test script and tries to run all of them. Care is especially needed if you are creating a common test library file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may not be suitable for standalone execution. Writing Tests ------------- The test script is written as a shell script. It should start with the standard "#!/bin/sh", and an assignment to variable 'test_description', like this: #!/bin/sh test_description='xxx test (option --frotz) This test registers the following structure in the cache and tries to run git-ls-files with option --frotz.' Source 'test-lib.sh' -------------------- After assigning test_description, the test script should source test-lib.sh like this: . ./test-lib.sh This test harness library does the following things: - If the script is invoked with command line argument --help (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits. - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by the --root option documented above. - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind ------------------------------------- Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do when writing tests. Do: - Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions. Even code that isn't a test per se, but merely some setup code should be inside a test assertion. - Chain your test assertions Write test code like this: git merge foo && git push bar && test ... Instead of: git merge hla git push gh test ... That way all of the commands in your tests will succeed or fail. If you must ignore the return value of something, consider using a helper function (e.g. use sane_unset instead of unset, in order to avoid unportable return value for unsetting a variable that was already unset), or prepending the command with test_might_fail or test_must_fail. - Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage" below. Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics; if a new function you added doesn't have any coverage, then you're probably doing something wrong, but having 100% coverage doesn't necessarily mean that you tested everything. Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics. - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated, construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD, $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. Don't: - exit() within a