4 This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The
5 first part of this short document describes how to run the tests
8 When fixing the tools or adding enhancements, you are strongly
9 encouraged to add tests in this directory to cover what you are
10 trying to fix or enhance. The later part of this short document
11 describes how your test scripts should be organized.
17 The easiest way to run tests is to say "make". This runs all
20 *** t0000-basic.sh ***
21 * ok 1: .git/objects should be empty after git-init in an empty repo.
22 * ok 2: .git/objects should have 256 subdirectories.
23 * ok 3: git-update-index without --add should fail adding.
25 * ok 23: no diff after checkout and git-update-index --refresh.
26 * passed all 23 test(s)
27 *** t0100-environment-names.sh ***
28 * ok 1: using old names should issue warnings.
29 * ok 2: using old names but having new names should not issue warnings.
32 Or you can run each test individually from command line, like
35 $ sh ./t3001-ls-files-killed.sh
36 * ok 1: git-update-index --add to add various paths.
37 * ok 2: git-ls-files -k to show killed files.
38 * ok 3: validate git-ls-files -k output.
39 * passed all 3 test(s)
41 You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate
42 (or -i) command line argument to the test.
45 This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the
46 command being run and their output if any are also
50 This may help the person who is developing a new test.
51 It causes the command defined with test_debug to run.
54 This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first
61 The test files are named as:
63 tNNNN-commandname-details.sh
65 where N is a decimal digit.
67 First digit tells the family:
69 0 - the absolute basics and global stuff
70 1 - the basic commands concerning database
71 2 - the basic commands concerning the working tree
72 3 - the other basic commands (e.g. ls-files)
74 5 - the pull and exporting commands
75 6 - the revision tree commands (even e.g. merge-base)
76 7 - the porcelainish commands concerning the working tree
77 8 - the porcelainish commands concerning forensics
80 Second digit tells the particular command we are testing.
82 Third digit (optionally) tells the particular switch or group of switches
85 If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not
86 the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above
87 pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the
88 top-level test script and tries to run all of them. A care is
89 especially needed if you are creating a common test library
90 file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may
91 not be suitable for standalone execution.
97 The test script is written as a shell script. It should start
98 with the standard "#!/bin/sh" with copyright notices, and an
99 assignment to variable 'test_description', like this:
103 # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
106 test_description='xxx test (option --frotz)
108 This test registers the following structure in the cache
109 and tries to run git-ls-files with option --frotz.'
115 After assigning test_description, the test script should source
116 test-lib.sh like this:
120 This test harness library does the following things:
122 - If the script is invoked with command line argument --help
123 (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits.
125 - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects
126 database and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash'
127 if you must know, but I do not think you care.
129 - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to
130 use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave
131 consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v),
132 --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given.
138 Your script will be a sequence of tests, using helper functions
139 from the test harness library. At the end of the script, call
146 There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness
147 library for your script to use.
149 - test_expect_success <message> <script>
151 This takes two strings as parameter, and evaluates the
152 <script>. If it yields success, test is considered
153 successful. <message> should state what it is testing.
157 test_expect_success \
158 'git-write-tree should be able to write an empty tree.' \
159 'tree=$(git-write-tree)'
161 - test_expect_failure <message> <script>
163 This is the opposite of test_expect_success. If <script>
164 yields success, test is considered a failure.
168 test_expect_failure \
169 'git-update-index without --add should fail adding.' \
170 'git-update-index should-be-empty'
172 - test_debug <script>
174 This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only
175 when the test script is started with --debug command line
176 argument. This is primarily meant for use during the
177 development of a new test script.
181 Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose
182 is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and
183 exit with an appropriate error code.
186 Tips for Writing Tests
187 ----------------------
189 As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best
190 source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate
191 t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in
192 that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it
193 knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/,
194 and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain
195 40-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh
196 because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is
197 to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal
198 drastically. For these people, after making certain changes,
199 not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And
200 such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these
201 otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by
202 an update to t0000-basic.sh.
204 However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core
205 GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate
206 knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts
207 hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats
208 the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of
209 validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing
210 updating when such a change to the internal happens, so do _not_
211 do it and leave the low level of validation to t0000-basic.sh.