tests/README
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:39:29 +0200
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Report on push/pull if heads are merged, too, like for new heads. Use case: If a remote repo has two heads and I _want_ to merge them, I merge and push. Meanwhile someone else pushed on top of one of the heads. He won't get a warning, because he doesn't create a new head, I won't notice that I don't close a head, because I don't get a message telling me.

A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
python run-tests.py

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 merge want user interaction

  for commit use -m "text"
  for hg merge, 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 "1000000 0"

- diff will show the current time

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