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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Brandon Williams" <bmwill@google.com>,
	"Daniel Graña" <dangra@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Richard Hartmann" <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] t7416: add new test about HEAD:.gitmodules and not existing .gitmodules
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 13:43:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbQ0DsAXZrvpp3_2CrMU6Jburf6UdjTxNSd72JqQCczWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180802134634.10300-11-ao2@ao2.it>

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:47 AM Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it> wrote:
>
> git submodule commands can now access .gitmodules from the current
> branch even when it's not in the working tree, add some tests for that
> scenario.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
> ---
>
> For the test files I used the most used style in other tests, Stefan suggested
> to avoid subshells and use "git -C" but subshells make the test look cleaner
> IMHO.

Oh well. Let's not dive into a style argument, so let me focus on the tests.

IMHO it would be nice if (at least partially) these tests are in the same patch
that added the reading from HEAD:.gitmodules  (although I like short
patches, too).

>
>  t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 112 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh
>
> diff --git a/t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh b/t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..3c7a53316b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +#
> +# Copyright (C) 2018  Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
> +#
> +
> +test_description=' Test reading/writing .gitmodules is not in the working tree
> +
> +This test verifies that, when .gitmodules is in the current branch but is not
> +in the working tree reading from it still works but writing to it does not.
> +
> +The test setup uses a sparse checkout, but the same scenario can be set up
> +also by committing .gitmodules and then just removing it from the filesystem.
> +
> +NOTE: "git mv" and "git rm" are still supposed to work even without
> +a .gitmodules file, as stated in the t3600-rm.sh and t7001-mv.sh tests.

"supposed to work" != "tested that it works" ?
I am not sure what the NOTE wants to tell me? (Should I review those
tests to double check them now? or do we just want to tell future readers
of this test there are other tangent tests to this?)


> +test_expect_success 'initialising submodule when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
> +       (cd super &&
> +               git submodule init
> +       )
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'showing submodule summary when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
> +       (cd super &&
> +               git submodule summary
> +       )
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'updating submodule when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
> +       (cd submodule &&
> +               echo file2 >file2 &&
> +               git add file2 &&
> +               git commit -m "add file2 to submodule"
> +       ) &&
> +       (cd super &&
> +               git submodule update
> +       )
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'not adding submodules when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
> +       (cd super &&
> +               test_must_fail git submodule add ../new_submodule
> +       )
> +'
> +
> +# "git add" in the test above fails as expected, however it still leaves the
> +# cloned tree in there and adds a config entry to .git/config. This is because
> +# no cleanup is done by cmd_add in git-submodule.sh when "git
> +# submodule--helper config" fails to add a new config setting.
> +#
> +# If we added the following commands to the test above:
> +#
> +#   rm -rf .git/modules/new_submodule &&
> +#   git reset HEAD new_submodule &&
> +#   rm -rf new_submodule

Alternatively we could check for the existence of .gitmodules
before starting all these things?

I think it is okay to not clean up if we check all "regular" or rather expected
things such as a non-writable .gitmodules file before actually doing it.
(This is similar to 'checkout' that walks the whole tree and checks if the
checkout is possible given the dirtyness of the tree, to either abort early
or pull through completely. In catastrophic problems such as a full disk
we'd still die in the middle of work)

> +#
> +# then the repository would be in a clean state and the test below would pass.
> +#
> +# Maybe cmd_add should do the cleanup from above itself when failing to add
> +# a submodule.
> +test_expect_failure 'init submodule after adding failed when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '

So this comment and test is about explaining why we can fail mid way through,
which we could not before unless we had the catastrophic event.

I think we should check for a "writable" .gitmodules file at the beginning,
which is if (G || (!G && !H)) [using the notation from the cover letter]?

> +       (cd super &&
> +               git submodule init
> +       )
> +'
> +
> +test_done
> --
> 2.18.0
>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-02 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-02 13:46 [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Make submodules work if .gitmodules is not checked out Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/12] submodule: add a print_config_from_gitmodules() helper Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 18:05   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-09 10:17     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/12] submodule: factor out a config_set_in_gitmodules_file_gently function Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/12] t7411: be nicer to future tests and really clean things up Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 16:40   ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-08-02 18:15     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-09 13:59       ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 18:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/12] submodule--helper: add a new 'config' subcommand Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 18:47   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-02 19:20     ` Jeff King
2018-08-03 10:21       ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/12] submodule: use the 'submodule--helper config' command Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 18:59   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/12] submodule--helper: add a '--stage' option to the 'config' sub command Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 18:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03 11:03     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-03 16:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-06 10:58         ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-06 17:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-07  9:19             ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-06 18:19           ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/12] submodule: use 'submodule--helper config --stage' to stage .gitmodules Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/12] t7506: cleanup .gitmodules properly before setting up new scenario Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 19:11   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/12] submodule: support reading .gitmodules even when it's not checked out Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 20:27   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] t7416: add new test about HEAD:.gitmodules and not existing .gitmodules Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 20:43   ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2018-08-09  9:14     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/12] dir: move is_empty_file() from builtin/am.c to dir.c and make it public Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 20:50   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-03  8:49     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/12] submodule: remove the .gitmodules file when it is empty Antonio Ospite
2018-08-02 21:15   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-03  8:57     ` Antonio Ospite

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