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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t3910: give reason for skipping the test
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:19:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5001B82B.1060201@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71c43b6e469c916f6c41026ad6ed25c1094018be.1342287902.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On 14.07.12 19:52, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> t3910 is skipped for most users because it requires a filesystem which
> does automatic conversion between different utf-8 types. Currently, this
> results in a skipped test with "no reason given".
> 
> Use the skip_all mechanism from our test suite so that a reason for
> skipping the test is given to the user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
> ---
> Alternatively, we could set a prerequisite and mark all tests with that.  Since
> it's either or for the whole test skip_all seems more appropriate.  In that
> case, we can also flatten the else branch, of course. The current patch is
> minimally invasive, though.

Good point, thanks.

If we spin that idea further,
we could move the whole t3910 into t0050.

That would be nice for all non Mac OS X users in a way that we save CPU time. 
We already detect unicode corruption in t0050. 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-14 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-14 17:52 [PATCH] t3910: give reason for skipping the test Michael J Gruber
2012-07-14 18:19 ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2012-07-26 13:39   ` [PATCH 0/5] test-lib: filesystem prerequisites Michael J Gruber
2012-07-26 13:39     ` [PATCH 1/5] test-lib: provide case insensitivity as a prerequisite Michael J Gruber
2012-07-26 13:39     ` [PATCH 2/5] t0050: use the CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS test prereq Michael J Gruber
2012-07-26 13:39     ` [PATCH 3/5] t0050: use the SYMLINKS " Michael J Gruber
2012-07-26 13:39     ` [PATCH 4/5] test-lib: provide UTF8 behaviour as a prerequisite Michael J Gruber
2012-07-26 13:39     ` [PATCH 5/5] t3910: use the SYMLINKS test prereq Michael J Gruber
2012-07-26 18:16     ` [PATCH 0/5] test-lib: filesystem prerequisites Junio C Hamano
2012-07-26 18:43       ` Jeff King
2012-07-26 20:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-27  9:31           ` Michael J Gruber
2012-07-27 17:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-30  9:56               ` Michael J Gruber
2012-07-30  9:57               ` [PATCHv2 5/5] t3910: use the UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC test prereq Michael J Gruber
2012-07-30 15:29                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-04  5:37                 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2012-08-04 22:04                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-06 12:44                     ` Michael J Gruber

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