Re: [PATCH 0/4] osxkeychain: bring in line with other credential helpers

[Robert Coup <robert.coup@koordinates.com>]

Hi Bo,

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 14:53, Bo Anderson <mail@boanderson.me> wrote:
>
> The test script does not interact well with the env filtering. This was the case before this change too.

I guess without writing a helper-specific test or having some
per-helper-setup thing it's a bit tricky.

> To interact with your default keychain, you will need:
>
> GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_SETUP="export HOME=$HOME”
>
> This is because the default macOS user keychain is local to your home directory - that’s why it’s giving errors about not finding any.

And with that, the tests all pass :-) Comparing with master where 7/21 failed.

Tested-by: Robert Coup <robert.coup@koordinates.com>

Could we document that setup step somewhere? I guess the simplest is
probably just to put it in the header of
t/t0303-credential-external.sh; maybe along the lines of the patch
below.

Rob :)


diff --git a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
index 095574bfc6..e4e693b233 100755
--- a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
+++ b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ timeout, you can test that feature with:
 If your helper requires additional setup before the tests are started,
 you can set GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_SETUP to a sequence of shell
 commands.
+
+- osxkeychain:
+
+  Because the default macOS user keychain is local to your home
+  directory, you will need:
+
+    GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_SETUP="export HOME=$HOME”
 '

 . ./test-lib.sh