git/t/README, branch v2.45.2

Merge branch 'pb/test-scripts-are-build-targets'

2024-04-03T17:56:19Z

The t/README file now gives a hint on running individual tests in the "t/" directory with "make t-*.sh t-*.sh". * pb/test-scripts-are-build-targets: t/README: mention test files are make targets

Merge branch 'ps/t7800-variable-interpolation-fix'

2024-04-01T20:21:35Z

Fix the way recently added tests interpolate variables defined outside them, and document the best practice to help future developers. * ps/t7800-variable-interpolation-fix: t/README: document how to loop around test cases t7800: use single quotes for test bodies t7800: improve test descriptions with empty arguments

t/README: mention test files are make targets

2024-03-25T18:59:48Z

Since 23fc63bf8f (make tests ignorable with "make -i", 2005-11-08), each test file defines a target in the test Makefile, such that one can invoke: make *checkout* to run all tests with 'checkout' in their filename. This is useful to run a subset of tests when you have a good idea of what part of the code is touched by the changes your are testing. Document that in t/README to help new (or more seasoned) contributors that might not be aware. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

t/README: document how to loop around test cases

2024-03-22T14:36:35Z

In some cases it makes sense to loop around test cases so that we can execute the same test with slightly different arguments. There are some gotchas around quoting here though that are easy to miss and that may lead to easy-to-miss errors and portability issues. Document the proper way to do this in "t/README". Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment' into maint-2.43

2024-02-09T00:22:01Z

Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. * js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment: doc: refer to internet archive doc: update links for andre-simon.de doc: switch links to https doc: update links to current pages

t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar

2024-01-02T17:24:48Z

Introduce a new GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT environment variable that lets developers run the test suite with a different default ref format without impacting the ref format used by non-test Git invocations. This is modeled after GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_OBJECT_FORMAT, which does the same thing for the repository's object format. Adapt the setup of the `REFFILES` test prerequisite to be conditionally set based on the default ref format. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment'

2023-12-18T22:10:12Z

doc: switch links to https

2023-11-26T01:07:05Z

These sites offer https versions of their content. Using the https versions provides some protection for users. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

t/README: fix multi-prerequisite example

2023-10-05T19:55:38Z

With the broken quoting the test wouldn't even parse correctly, but there's also the '==' instead of POSIX '=' (of the shells I tested, busybox ash, bash and ksh (93 and OpenBSD) accept '==', dash and zsh do not), and 'print 2' from Python 2 days. (I assume the test failing due to 3 != 4 is intentional or immaterial.) Fixes: 93a572461386 ("test-lib: Add support for multiple test prerequisites") Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues

2023-10-05T19:55:38Z

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano