From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jiang Xin" <worldhello.net@gmail.com>,
"Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] test suite broken with GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:18:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpaa38o2.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7aed763-cf46-4d7e-1b11-0a7a65b8f496@grubix.eu> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:47:12 +0200")
Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu> writes:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 20.04.2017 23:58:
>> As a refresh of everyone's memory (because mine needed it). This is a
>> feature I added back in 2011 when the i18n support was initially
>> added.
>>
>> There was concern at the time that we would inadvertently mark
>> plumbing messages for translation, particularly something in a shared
>> code path, and this was a way to hopefully smoke out those issues with
>> the test suite.
>>
>> However compiling with it breaks a couple of dozen tests, I stopped
>> digging when I saw some broke back in 2014.
>>
>> What should be done about this? I think if we're going to keep them
>> they need to be run regularly by something like Travis (Lars CC'd),
>> however empirical evidence suggests that not running them is just fine
>> too, so should we just remove support for this test mode?
>>
>> I don't care, but I can come up with the patch either way, but would
>> only be motivated to write the one-time fix for it if some CI system
>> is actually running them regularly, otherwise they'll just be subject
>> to bitrotting again.
>
> I use that switch when I change something that involves l10n, but
> usually I run specific tests only. To be honest: I have to make sure not
> to get confused by (nor forget one of) the build flag GETTEXT_POISON and
> the environment variable GIT_GETTEXT_POISON. I'm not sure I always
> tested what I meant to test...
To be quite honest, I have always felt that we are just as likely
inadvertently use test_i18ncmp when we should use test_cmp (and vice
versa) as we would mark plumbing messages with _() by mistake with
this approach, and even with constant monitoring by something like
Travis, GETTEXT_POISON may be able to catch mistakes only some of
the time (i.e. when we do not make mistakes in writing our tests).
Without constant monitoring, I agree that the mechanism does not
work well to catch our mistakes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-24 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-20 21:58 [BUG] test suite broken with GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-21 14:47 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-04-21 17:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-24 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
[not found] ` <20170424110434.27689-1-avarab@gmail.com>
2017-04-26 9:17 ` [PATCH] tests: remove the GETTEXT_POISON compile-time option to test i18n marking Michael J Gruber
2017-04-26 14:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-21 14:54 ` [BUG] test suite broken with GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Lars Schneider
2017-04-21 18:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-21 18:57 ` [PATCH] tests: fix tests broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-24 1:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24 8:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-25 4:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-25 8:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-26 1:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-26 7:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-24 13:22 ` [BUG] test suite broken with GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Duy Nguyen
2017-04-24 20:37 ` Jeff King
2017-04-25 8:51 ` Lars Schneider
2017-04-25 10:01 ` Jeff King
2017-04-28 8:42 ` Lars Schneider
2017-04-28 8:44 ` Jeff King
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