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Remove the "test_external" function added in [1]. This arguably makes the output of t9700-perl-git.sh and friends worse. But as we'll argue below the trade-off is worth it, since "chaining" to another TAP emitter in test-lib.sh is more trouble than it's worth. The new output of t9700-perl-git.sh is now: $ ./t9700-perl-git.sh ok 1 - set up test repository ok 2 - use t9700/test.pl to test Git.pm # passed all 2 test(s) 1..2 Whereas before this change it would be: $ ./t9700-perl-git.sh ok 1 - set up test repository # run 1: Perl API (perl /home/avar/g/git/t/t9700/test.pl) ok 2 - use Git; [... omitting tests 3..46 from t/t9700/test.pl ...] ok 47 - unquote escape sequences 1..47 # test_external test Perl API was ok # test_external_without_stderr test no stderr: Perl API was ok At the time of its addition supporting "test_external" was easy, but when test-lib.sh itself started to emit TAP in [2] we needed to make everything surrounding the emission of the plan consider "test_external". I added that support in [2] so that we could run: prove ./t9700-perl-git.sh :: -v But since then in [3] the door has been closed on combining $HARNESS_ACTIVE and -v, we'll now just die: $ prove ./t9700-perl-git.sh :: -v Bailout called. Further testing stopped: verbose mode forbidden under TAP harness; try --verbose-log FAILED--Further testing stopped: verbose mode forbidden under TAP harness; try --verbose-log So the only use of this has been that *if* we had failure in one of these tests we could e.g. in CI see which test failed based on the test number. Now we'll need to look at the full verbose logs to get that same information. I think this trade-off is acceptable given the reduction in complexity, and it brings these tests in line with other similar tests, e.g. the reftable tests added in [4] will be condensed down to just one test, which invokes the C helper: $ ./t0032-reftable-unittest.sh ok 1 - unittests # passed all 1 test(s) 1..1 It would still be nice to have that ":: -v" form work again, it never *really* worked, but even though we've had edge cases test output screwing up the TAP it mostly worked between |
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Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there are some general interests (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc