A user reported issues with 'scalar clone' and 'scalar register' when
working in an environment that had locked down the ability to run
'crontab' or 'systemctl' in that those commands registered as _failures_
instead of opportunistically reporting a success with just a warning
about background maintenance.
As a workaround, they can use GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER to fake a
successful background maintenance, but this is not a viable strategy for
long-term.
Update 'scalar register' and 'scalar clone' to no longer fail by
modifying register_dir() to only warn when toggle_maintenance(1) fails.
Since background maintenance is a "nice to have" and not a requirement
for a working repository, it is best to move this from hard error to
gentle warning.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A user recently reported issues with 'scalar register' and 'scalar
clone' in that they failed when the system had permissions locked down
so both 'crontab' and 'systemctl' commands failed when trying to enable
background maintenance.
This hard error is undesirable, but let's create tests that demonstrate
this behavior before modiying the behavior. We can use
GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER to guarantee failure and check the exit code
and error message.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes when users use scalar to download a monorepo with a long
commit history, they want to check the progress bar to know how long
they still need to wait during the fetch process, but scalar
suppresses this output by default.
So let's check whether scalar stderr refer to a terminal, if so,
show progress, otherwise disable it.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new test file ('t9211-scalar-clone.sh') to exercise the options and
behavior of the 'scalar clone' command. Each test clones to a unique target
location and cleans up the cloned repo only when the test passes. This
ensures that failed tests' artifacts are captured in CI artifacts for
further debugging.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
