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Core GIT Tests
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Core Git Tests
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This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The
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This directory holds many test scripts for core Git tools. The
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first part of this short document describes how to run the tests
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and read their output.
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As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best
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source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate
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t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in
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that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it
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that it tries to validate the very core of Git. For example, it
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knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/,
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and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain
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40-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh
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because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is
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to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal
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to serve as a basis for people who are changing the Git internals
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drastically. For these people, after making certain changes,
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not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And
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such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these
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such drastic changes to the core Git that even changes these
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otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by
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an update to t0000-basic.sh.
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However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core
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GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate
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knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts
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Git working properly should not have that level of intimate
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knowledge of the core Git internals. If all the test scripts
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hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats
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the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of
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validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing
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