The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
* js/ci-discard-prove-state:
ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
Add support for GitLab CI.
* ps/ci-gitlab:
ci: add support for GitLab CI
ci: install test dependencies for linux-musl
ci: squelch warnings when testing with unusable Git repo
ci: unify setup of some environment variables
ci: split out logic to set up failed test artifacts
ci: group installation of Docker dependencies
ci: make grouping setup more generic
ci: reorder definitions for grouping functions
Update the base topic to work with CMake builds.
* js/doc-unit-tests-with-cmake:
cmake: handle also unit tests
cmake: use test names instead of full paths
cmake: fix typo in variable name
artifacts-tar: when including `.dll` files, don't forget the unit-tests
unit-tests: do show relative file paths
unit-tests: do not mistake `.pdb` files for being executable
cmake: also build unit tests
Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started.
* js/doc-unit-tests:
ci: run unit tests in CI
unit tests: add TAP unit test framework
unit tests: add a project plan document
"To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code
comments and documentation but without description in the glossary.
* vd/glossary-dereference-peel:
glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
A few stray single quotes crept into the usage string in a2ce608244
(send-email docs: add format-patch options, 2021-10-25). Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'gitglossary' definitions for "dereference" (as it used for both symrefs
and objects) and "peel". These terms are used in options and documentation
throughout Git, but they are not clearly defined anywhere and the behavior
they refer to depends heavily on context. Provide explicit definitions to
clarify existing documentation to users and help contributors to use the
most appropriate terminology possible in their additions to Git.
Update other definitions in the glossary that use the term "dereference" to
link to 'def_dereference'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a late amendment of 4a6e4b9602 (CI: remove Travis CI support,
2021-11-23), whereby the `.prove` file (being written by the `prove`
command that is used to run the test suite) is no longer retained
between CI builds: This feature was only ever used in the Travis CI
builds, we tried for a while to do the same in Azure Pipelines CI runs
(but I gave up on it after a while), and we never used that feature in
GitHub Actions (nor does the new GitLab CI code use it).
Retaining the Prove cache has been fragile from the start, even though
the idea seemed good at the time, the idea being that the `.prove` file
caches information about previous `prove` runs (`save`) and uses them
(`slow`) to run the tests in the order from longer-running to shorter
ones, making optimal use of the parallelism implied by `--jobs=<N>`.
However, using a Prove cache can cause some surprising behavior: When
the `prove` caches information about a test script it has run,
subsequent `prove` runs (with `--state=slow`) will run the same test
script again even if said script is not specified on the `prove`
command-line!
So far, this bug did not matter. Right until d8f416bbb8 (ci: run unit
tests in CI, 2023-11-09) did it not matter.
But starting with that commit, we invoke `prove` _twice_ in CI, once to
run the regular test suite of regression test scripts, and once to run
the unit tests. Due to the bug, the second invocation re-runs all of the
tests that were already run as part of the first invocation. This not
only wastes build minutes, it also frequently causes the `osx-*` jobs to
fail because they already take a long time and now are likely to run
into a timeout.
The worst part about it is that there is actually no benefit to keep
running with `--state=slow,save`, ever since we decided no longer to
try to reuse the Prove cache between CI runs.
So let's just drop that Prove option and live happily ever after.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hooks executed by Subversion are spawned with an empty environment. By
default, not even variables like PATH will be propagated to them. In
order to ensure that we're still able to find required executables, we
thus write the current PATH variable into the hook script itself and
then re-export it in t9164.
This happens too late in the script though, as we already tried to
execute the basename(1) utility before exporting the PATH variable. This
tends to work on most platforms as the fallback value of PATH for Bash
(see `getconf PATH`) is likely to contain this binary. But on more
exotic platforms like NixOS this is not the case, and thus the test
fails.
While we could work around this issue by simply setting PATH earlier, it
feels fragile to inject a user-controlled value into the script and have
the shell interpret it. Instead, we can refactor the hook setup to write
a `hooks-env` file that configures PATH for us. Like this, Subversion
will know to set up the environment as expected for all hooks.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When setting up httpd for our tests, we also install a passwd and
proxy-passwd file that contain the test user's credentials. These
credentials currently use crypt(3) as the password encryption schema.
This schema can be considered deprecated nowadays as it is not safe
anymore. Quoting Apache httpd's documentation [1]:
> Unix only. Uses the traditional Unix crypt(3) function with a
> randomly-generated 32-bit salt (only 12 bits used) and the first 8
> characters of the password. Insecure.
This is starting to cause issues in modern Linux distributions. glibc
has deprecated its libcrypt library that used to provide crypt(3) in
favor of the libxcrypt library. This newer replacement provides a
compile time switch to disable insecure password encryption schemata,
which causes crypt(3) to always return `EINVAL`. The end result is that
httpd tests that exercise authentication will fail on distros that use
libxcrypt without these insecure encryption schematas.
Regenerate the passwd files to instead use the default password
encryption schema, which is md5. While it feels kind of funny that an
MD5-based encryption schema should be more secure than anything else, it
is the current default and supported by all platforms. Furthermore, it
really doesn't matter all that much given that these files are only used
for testing purposes anyway.
[1]: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/misc/password_encryptions.html
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to set up the Apache httpd server, we need to locate both the
httpd binary and its default module path. This is done with a hardcoded
list of locations that we scan. While this works okayish with distros
that more-or-less follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, it falls
apart on others like NixOS that don't.
While it is possible to specify these paths via `LIB_HTTPD_PATH` and
`LIB_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH`, it is not a nice experience for the developer
to figure out how to set those up. And in fact we can do better by
dynamically detecting both httpd and its module path at runtime:
- The httpd binary can be located via PATH.
- The module directory can (in many cases) be derived via the
`HTTPD_ROOT` compile-time variable.
Amend the code to do so.
Note that the new runtime-detected paths will only be used as a fallback
in case none of the hardcoded paths are usable. For the PATH lookup this
is because httpd is typically installed into "/usr/sbin", which is often
not included in the user's PATH variable. And the module path detection
relies on a configured httpd installation and may thus not work in all
cases, either.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The unit tests should also be available e.g. in Visual Studio's Test
Explorer when configuring Git's source code via CMake.
Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The primary purpose of Git's CMake definition is to allow developing Git
in Visual Studio. As part of that, the CTest feature allows running
individual test scripts conveniently in Visual Studio's Test Explorer.
However, this Test Explorer's design targets object-oriented languages
and therefore expects the test names in the form
`<namespace>.<class>.<testname>`. And since we specify the full path
of the test scripts instead, including the ugly `/.././t/` part, these
dots confuse the Test Explorer and it uses a large part of the path as
"namespace".
Let's just use `t.suite.<name>` instead. This presents the tests in
Visual Studio's Test Explorer in the following form by default (i.e.
unless the user changes the view via the "Group by" menu):
◢ ◈ git
◢ ◈ t
◢ ◈ suite
◈ t0000-basic
◈ t0001-init
◈ t0002-gitfile
[...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of recent, Git also builds executables in `t/unit-tests/`. For
technical reasons, when building with CMake and Visual C, the
dependencies (".dll files") need to be copied there, too, otherwise
running the executable will fail "due to missing dependencies".
The CMake definition already contains the directives to copy those
`.dll` files, but we also need to adjust the `artifacts-tar` rule in
the `Makefile` accordingly to let the `vs-test` job in the CI runs
pass successfully.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Visual C interpolates `__FILE__` with the absolute _Windows_ path of
the source file. GCC interpolates it with the relative path, and the
tests even verify that.
So let's make sure that the unit tests only emit such paths.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When building the unit tests via CMake, the `.pdb` files are built.
Those are, essentially, files containing the debug information
separately from the executables.
Let's not confuse them with the executables we actually want to run.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new, better way to run unit tests was just added to Git. This adds
support for building those unit tests via CMake.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Run unit tests in both Cirrus and GitHub CI. For sharded CI instances
(currently just Windows on GitHub), run only on the first shard. This is
OK while we have only a single unit test executable, but we may wish to
distribute tests more evenly when we add new unit tests in the future.
We may also want to add more status output in our unit test framework,
so that we can do similar post-processing as in
ci/lib.sh:handle_failed_tests().
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch contains an implementation for writing unit tests with TAP
output. Each test is a function that contains one or more checks. The
test is run with the TEST() macro and if any of the checks fail then the
test will fail. A complete program that tests STRBUF_INIT would look
like
#include "test-lib.h"
#include "strbuf.h"
static void t_static_init(void)
{
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
check_uint(buf.len, ==, 0);
check_uint(buf.alloc, ==, 0);
check_char(buf.buf[0], ==, '\0');
}
int main(void)
{
TEST(t_static_init(), "static initialization works);
return test_done();
}
The output of this program would be
ok 1 - static initialization works
1..1
If any of the checks in a test fail then they print a diagnostic message
to aid debugging and the test will be reported as failing. For example a
failing integer check would look like
# check "x >= 3" failed at my-test.c:102
# left: 2
# right: 3
not ok 1 - x is greater than or equal to three
There are a number of check functions implemented so far. check() checks
a boolean condition, check_int(), check_uint() and check_char() take two
values to compare and a comparison operator. check_str() will check if
two strings are equal. Custom checks are simple to implement as shown in
the comments above test_assert() in test-lib.h.
Tests can be skipped with test_skip() which can be supplied with a
reason for skipping which it will print. Tests can print diagnostic
messages with test_msg(). Checks that are known to fail can be wrapped
in TEST_TODO().
There are a couple of example test programs included in this
patch. t-basic.c implements some self-tests and demonstrates the
diagnostic output for failing test. The output of this program is
checked by t0080-unit-test-output.sh. t-strbuf.c shows some example
unit tests for strbuf.c
The unit tests will be built as part of the default "make all" target,
to avoid bitrot. If you wish to build just the unit tests, you can run
"make build-unit-tests". To run the tests, you can use "make unit-tests"
or run the test binaries directly, as in "./t/unit-tests/bin/t-strbuf".
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In our current testing environment, we spend a significant amount of
effort crafting end-to-end tests for error conditions that could easily
be captured by unit tests (or we simply forgo some hard-to-setup and
rare error conditions). Describe what we hope to accomplish by
implementing unit tests, and explain some open questions and milestones.
Discuss desired features for test frameworks/harnesses, and provide a
comparison of several different frameworks. Finally, document our
rationale for implementing a custom framework.
Co-authored-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already support Azure Pipelines and GitHub Workflows in the Git
project, but until now we do not have support for GitLab CI. While it is
arguably not in the interest of the Git project to maintain a ton of
different CI platforms, GitLab has recently ramped up its efforts and
tries to contribute to the Git project more regularly.
Part of a problem we hit at GitLab rather frequently is that our own,
custom CI setup we have is so different to the setup that the Git
project has. More esoteric jobs like "linux-TEST-vars" that also set a
couple of environment variables do not exist in GitLab's custom CI
setup, and maintaining them to keep up with what Git does feels like
wasted time. The result is that we regularly send patch series upstream
that fail to compile or pass tests in GitHub Workflows. We would thus
like to integrate the GitLab CI configuration into the Git project to
help us send better patch series upstream and thus reduce overhead for
the maintainer. Results of these pipeline runs will be made available
(at least) in GitLab's mirror of the Git project at [1].
This commit introduces the integration into our regular CI scripts so
that most of the setup continues to be shared across all of the CI
solutions. Note that as the builds on GitLab CI run as unprivileged
user, we need to pull in both sudo and shadow packages to our Alpine
based job to set this up.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/git
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The linux-musl CI job executes tests on Alpine Linux, which is based on
musl libc instead of glibc. We're missing some test dependencies though,
which causes us to skip a subset of tests.
Install these test dependencies to increase our test coverage on this
platform. There are still some missing test dependecies, but these do
not have a corresponding package in the Alpine repositories:
- p4 and p4d, both parts of the Perforce version control system.
- cvsps, which generates patch sets for CVS.
- Subversion and the SVN::Core Perl library, the latter of which is
not available in the Alpine repositories. While the tool itself is
available, all Subversion-related tests are skipped without the
SVN::Core Perl library anyway.
The Apache2-based tests require a bit more care though. For one, the
module path is different on Alpine Linux, which requires us to add it to
the list of known module paths to detect it. But second, the WebDAV
module on Alpine Linux is broken because it does not bundle the default
database backend [1]. We thus need to skip the WebDAV-based tests on
Alpine Linux for now.
[1]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13112
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our CI jobs that run on Docker also use mostly the same architecture to
build and test Git via the "ci/run-build-and-tests.sh" script. These
scripts also provide some functionality to massage the Git repository
we're supposedly operating in.
In our Docker-based infrastructure we may not even have a Git repository
available though, which leads to warnings when those functions execute.
Make the helpers exit gracefully in case either there is no Git in our
PATH, or when not running in a Git repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines set up the environment variables
GIT_TEST_OPTS, GIT_PROVE_OPTS and MAKEFLAGS. And while most values are
actually the same, the setup is completely duplicate. With the upcoming
support for GitLab CI this duplication would only extend even further.
Unify the setup of those environment variables so that only the uncommon
parts are separated. While at it, we also perform some additional small
improvements:
- We now always pass `--state=failed,slow,save` via GIT_PROVE_OPTS.
It doesn't hurt on platforms where we don't persist the state, so
this further reduces boilerplate.
- When running on Windows systems we set `--no-chain-lint` and
`--no-bin-wrappers`. Interestingly though, we did so _after_
already having exported the respective environment variables.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have some logic in place to create a directory with the output from
failed tests, which will then subsequently be uploaded as CI artifacts.
We're about to add support for GitLab CI, which will want to reuse the
logic.
Split the logic into a separate function so that it is reusable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output of CI jobs tends to be quite long-winded and hard to digest.
To help with this, many CI systems provide the ability to group output
into collapsible sections, and we're also doing this in some of our
scripts.
One notable omission is the script to install Docker dependencies.
Address it to bring more structure to the output for Docker-based jobs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
