tests/README
author mpm@selenic.com
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:53:47 -0800
changeset 917 7f3f55903496
parent 814 0902ffece4b4
child 1933 7544700fd931
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fix hg clone race with writer Most read operations in hg don't need locks because we order reads and writes for consistency. Clone is an exception to this as we're copying entire file histories and could end up with more file history copied than we have commits. For now, make clone take a lock on the source repo. Non-hardlinked clone should eventually be changed to use lockless pull.

A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
./run-tests

This finds all scripts in the test directory named test-* and executes
them. The scripts can be either shell scripts or Python. Each test is
run in a temporary directory that is removed when the test is complete.

A test-<x> succeeds if the script returns success and its output
matches test-<x>.out. If the new output doesn't match, it is stored in
test-<x>.err.

There are some tricky points here that you should be aware of when
writing tests:

- hg commit and hg up -m want user interaction

  for commit use -m "text"
  for hg up -m, set HGMERGE to something noninteractive (like true or merge)

- changeset hashes will change based on user and date which make
  things like hg history output change

  use commit -m "test" -u test -d "0 0"

- diff will show the current time

  use hg diff | sed "s/\(\(---\|+++\) [a-zA-Z0-9_/.-]*\).*/\1/" to strip
  dates