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Re: [PATCH] test: fix for TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-14 14:25:45

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:33:12AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
quoted
I think breaking the test suite is objectively worse than having a few
extra files in the output directory, but to each his own.
We've got both in-tree and out-tree things that rely on e.g. the
*.counts in that directory to have a 1=1 mapping with "real"
tests. E.g. "make aggregate-results".
Indeed. With Felipe's original patch, the "test" target (but not
"prove") in t/Makefile will report, whether you set
TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY or not:

  failed test(s): t1234 t2345

  fixed   0
  success 23243
  failed  2
  broken  221
  total   23647

though curiously it doesn't exit non-zero back to make (usually we'd
also see the failures from the individual make targets, and barf there).
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh
index 2c6e34b9478..29bf67d49bf 100755
--- a/t/t0000-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ _run_sub_test_lib_test_common () {
 		# this variable, so we need a stable setting under which to run
 		# the sub-test.
 		sane_unset HARNESS_ACTIVE &&
+
+		# These tests should emit no metrics or output that
+		# would normally go in the "test-results" directory.
+		TEST_NO_RESULTS_OUTPUT=1 &&
+		export TEST_NO_RESULTS_OUTPUT &&
I'm OK with this general approach. I do think it would be nice if we let
the environment supersede the on-disk GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS, which IMHO is
the real root of the problem (and possibly others), but that may be more
challenging to get right (I posted a patch earlier, but it does rely on
stuffing all of "set" into a variable, which makes me concerned some
less-able shells may complain).

It also means that t0000 can't test the results output (since we don't
write it), but I assume we don't do that now (I didn't actually try
running with your patch).
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 54938c64279..9e9696a3185 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -252,8 +252,14 @@ TEST_STRESS_JOB_SFX="${GIT_TEST_STRESS_JOB_NR:+.stress-$GIT_TEST_STRESS_JOB_NR}"
 TEST_NAME="$(basename "$0" .sh)"
 TEST_NUMBER="${TEST_NAME%%-*}"
 TEST_NUMBER="${TEST_NUMBER#t}"
-TEST_RESULTS_DIR="$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY/test-results"
-TEST_RESULTS_BASE="$TEST_RESULTS_DIR/$TEST_NAME$TEST_STRESS_JOB_SFX"
+if test -n "$TEST_NO_RESULTS_OUTPUT"
+then
+	TEST_RESULTS_DIR=/dev/null
+	TEST_RESULTS_BASE=/dev/null
+else
+	TEST_RESULTS_DIR="$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY/test-results"
+	TEST_RESULTS_BASE="$TEST_RESULTS_DIR/$TEST_NAME$TEST_STRESS_JOB_SFX"
+fi
I wondered about this use of /dev/null, since we'd generally use this as
a directory, and writing to "/dev/null/foo" is going to throw an error.

But...
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 TRASH_DIRECTORY="trash directory.$TEST_NAME$TEST_STRESS_JOB_SFX"
 test -n "$root" && TRASH_DIRECTORY="$root/$TRASH_DIRECTORY"
 case "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" in
@@ -1124,7 +1130,7 @@ test_done () {
 
 	finalize_junit_xml
 
-	if test -z "$HARNESS_ACTIVE"
+	if test -z "$HARNESS_ACTIVE$TEST_NO_RESULTS_OUTPUT"
 	then
 		mkdir -p "$TEST_RESULTS_DIR"
...here we would never look at those variables at all, so it is just a
sentinel that would let us know the assumption has been violated.

We do look at them elsewhere, though (in --tee as you noted, and I think
for --stress). I'd prefer to notice the "no results" flag explicitly
there and report something sensible, rather than getting:

  mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/dev/null’: Not a directory

or similar.

-Peff
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