From 4231d1ba995379974401062349c3281d7a821be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:43:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] t0000: do not get self-test disrupted by environment warnings The test framework test-lib.sh itself would want to give warnings and hints, e.g. when it sees a deprecated environment variable is in use that we want to encourage users to migrate to another variable. The self-test of test framework done in t0000 however do not expect to see these warnings and hints, so depending on the settings of environment variables, a running test may or may not produce these messages to the standard error output, breaking the expectations of self-test test framework does on itself. Here is what we see: $ TEST_GIT_INDEX_VERSION=4 sh t0000-basic.sh -i -v ... 'err' is not empty, it contains: warning: TEST_GIT_INDEX_VERSION is now GIT_TEST_INDEX_VERSION hint: set GIT_TEST_INDEX_VERSION too during the transition period not ok 5 - pretend we have a fully passing test suite The following quick attempt to work it around does not work, because some tests in t0000 do want to see expected errors from the test framework itself. t/t0000-basic.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh index 850f651e4e..88c6ed4696 100755 --- a/t/t0000-basic.sh +++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ _run_sub_test_lib_test_common () { ' # Point to the t/test-lib.sh, which isn't in ../ as usual - . "\$TEST_DIRECTORY"/test-lib.sh + . "\$TEST_DIRECTORY"/test-lib.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 EOF cat >>"$name.sh" && chmod +x "$name.sh" && There are a few possible ways to work this around: * We could strip the warning: and hint: unconditionally from the error output before the error messages are checked in the self-test (helper functions check_sub_test_lib_test_err and check_sub_test_lib_test); the problem with this approach is that it will make it impossible to write self-tests to ensure that right warnings and hints are given. * We could force a sane environment settings before the test helper _run_sub_test_lib_test_common dot-sources test-lib.sh; the problem with this approach is that _run_sub_test_lib_test_common now needs to be aware of what pairs of environment variables are checked in test-lib.sh using check_var_migration helper. The final patch I came up with is probably the solution that is least bad. Set a variable to tell test-lib.sh that we are running a self-test, so that various pieces in test-lib.sh can react to keep the output stable. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- t/t0000-basic.sh | 4 ++++ t/test-lib.sh | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh index 850f651e4e..52c02b7c7e 100755 --- a/t/t0000-basic.sh +++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh @@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ _run_sub_test_lib_test_common () { passing metrics ' + # Tell the framework that we are self-testing to make sure + # it yields a stable result. + GIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK_SELFTEST=t && + # Point to the t/test-lib.sh, which isn't in ../ as usual . "\$TEST_DIRECTORY"/test-lib.sh EOF diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 8ef86e05a3..364a11ea25 100644 --- a/t/test-lib.sh +++ b/t/test-lib.sh @@ -135,9 +135,17 @@ GIT_TRACE_BARE=1 export GIT_TRACE_BARE check_var_migration () { + # the warnings and hints given from this helper depends + # on end-user settings, which will disrupt the self-test + # done on the test framework itself. + case "$GIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK_SELFTEST" in + t) return ;; + esac + old_name=$1 new_name=$2 eval "old_isset=\${${old_name}:+isset}" eval "new_isset=\${${new_name}:+isset}" + case "$old_isset,$new_isset" in isset,) echo >&2 "warning: $old_name is now $new_name"