tests/README
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:47:46 +0100
changeset 862 d70c1c31fd45
parent 814 0902ffece4b4
child 1933 7544700fd931
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fix 3-way-merge of original parent, workdir and new parent. The dirstate has to match what is in the repository (what would be checked out with 'hg update -C'), because the resulting file may be identical to the new parent, or it may be completely different. Previously the dirstate wasn't updated, so if you changed the file to look like the original parent, it might be considered unmodified relative to the new parent.

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