Re: Tests in Cygwin

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 49c3a51..c61e1d4 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README

@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ library for your script to use.
    <script>.  If it yields success, test is considered
    successful.  <message> should state what it is testing.
 
-   An optional parameter <prereq> is a '+' separated list of prerequisite
+   An optional parameter <prereq> is a space separated list of prerequisite
    tokens.  The test will be skipped if the test environment lacks any of
-   the prerequiste feature listed (see below for commonly used
+   the prerequisite feature listed (see below for commonly used
    prerequisites).
 
    Example:

diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh
index f4ca4fc..58bac69 100755
--- a/t/t0000-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh

@@ -67,7 +67,18 @@ donthaveit=yes
 test_expect_success DONTHAVEIT 'unmet prerequisite causes test to be 

diff --git a/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh b/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
index 8683189..eb60f80 100755
--- a/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
+++ b/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'funny symlink in work 

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 2d12799..dd3b8d7 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh

@@ -263,13 +263,8 @@ test_set_prereq () {
 }
 satisfied=" "
 
-# prerequisites can be concatenated with '+'
 test_have_prereq () {
-       save_IFS=$IFS
-       IFS=+
-       set -- $*
-       IFS=$save_IFS
-       for prerequisite
+       for prerequisite in $(echo $*)
        do
                case $satisfied in
                *" $prerequisite "*)

-- 
1.5.4.2


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Tests in Cygwin
From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CC: Don Slutz <Don.Slutz@SierraAtlantic.com>, Hannu Koivisto 
<azure@iki.fi>, git@vger.kernel.org
Date: 5/7/2009 3:13 AM
> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>   
>> Don Slutz <Don.Slutz@SierraAtlantic.com> writes:
>>
>>     
>>> A lot of these failures are do to running as root (member of
>>> Administrators)....
>>>       
>> Perhaps we can do this to reduce the noise level.
>>     
>
> Thank you for this patch. Unfortunately, it does not work as intended
> because the call to test_have_prereq in test_skip does not split
> the prereq tokens so that tests with space-separated prerequisite tokens
> are always skipped.
>
> My first attempt to solve that is to remove the quotes from the
> test_have_prereq call in test_skip; but I think that this simple
> solution is rather unintuitive, and will look like a bug if you inspect
> the code again in two months.
>
> You could squash in the patch below, where I chose to concatenate
> tokens with '+' because I dislike the extra quoting that is otherwise
> necessary at the call site. The downside is that it plays games with
> IFS, which you might find too ugly and not worth it. It's your call.
>
> BTW, I didn't dare test this as root on my production system; I'll do
> that later today elsewhere.
>
>
> diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
> index a532c32..49c3a51 100644
> --- a/t/README
> +++ b/t/README
> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ library for your script to use.
>     <script>.  If it yields success, test is considered
>     successful.  <message> should state what it is testing.
>
> -   An optional parameter <prereq> is a space separated list of prerequisite
> +   An optional parameter <prereq> is a '+' separated list of prerequisite
>     tokens.  The test will be skipped if the test environment lacks any of
>     the prerequiste feature listed (see below for commonly used
>     prerequisites).
> @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ Prerequisites
>  -------------
>
>   POSIXPERM	The filesystem supports POSIX style permission bits
> - BSLASHPSPEC	???
> + BSLASHPSPEC	Backslashes in pathspec are not directory separators
> +                (i.e. they are not converted to forward-slash)
>   EXECKEEPSPID	The process retains the same pid across exec(2)
>
>   SANITY		Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to an
> diff --git a/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh b/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
> index eb60f80..8683189 100755
> --- a/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
> +++ b/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'funny symlink in work tree' '
>
>  '
>
> -test_expect_success 'SYMLINKS SANITY' 'funny symlink in work tree, un-unlink-able' '
> +test_expect_success SYMLINKS+SANITY 'funny symlink in work tree, un-unlink-able' '
>
>  	rm -fr a b &&
>  	git reset --hard &&
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index 1922e0b..2d12799 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -263,7 +263,12 @@ test_set_prereq () {
>  }
>  satisfied=" "
>
> +# prerequisites can be concatenated with '+'
>  test_have_prereq () {
> +	save_IFS=$IFS
> +	IFS=+
> +	set -- $*
> +	IFS=$save_IFS
>  	for prerequisite
>  	do
>  		case $satisfied in
>
>   



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