Re: [PATCH 1/2] t0003: do not chdir the whole test process

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

For a while I've been wanting to teach GIT_SKIP_TESTS not to skip
tests with 'setup' or 'set up' in their name, but I never got around
to it.

Yeah, that would be a good thing.  As part of doing so, we might
want to come up with a way to test the tests, randomly skipping
pieces that are not "setup" and find ones that break the later tests
when skipped, and mark test scripts that fail such a test for fixing.

If I try to skip the setup test this patch touches, then there
is no bare.git and lots of later tests fail.  Perhaps it would be
better for each test to do

	rm -fr bare.git &&
	git clone --bare . bare.git &&
	(
		cd bare.git &&
		...
	)

for itself to make the state easier to think about.

That is a better and worse way to do it at the same time ;-)  It
definitely is better from maintainability POV to keep each test as
independent as possible.  It however also is worse if it forces us
to be repetitive X-<.

On the other hand I agree that the 'cd' here is a bad practice.  I
just don't think it's about skipping setup --- instead, it's about it
being hard to remember the cwd in general.

Exactly.