tests: prevent enormous output spew in test-lfs-largefiles.t
authorAugie Fackler <augie@google.com>
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:44:41 -0500
changeset 36650 9318babff83b
parent 36649 d3b893ec5f08
child 36651 6b1eb4c610b4
tests: prevent enormous output spew in test-lfs-largefiles.t This test currently fails on Python 3, but in a super-slow way. Adding this `head` invocation costs us nothing, but will prevent failures in this area from being super expensive. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2600
tests/test-lfs-largefiles.t
--- a/tests/test-lfs-largefiles.t	Sat Mar 03 12:23:03 2018 -0500
+++ b/tests/test-lfs-largefiles.t	Sat Mar 03 14:44:41 2018 -0500
@@ -338,7 +338,10 @@
 No diffs when comparing merge and p1 that kept p1's changes.  Diff of lfs to
 largefiles no longer operates in standin files.
 
-  $ hg diff -r 2:3
+This `head -n 20` looks dumb (since we expect no output), but if something
+breaks you can get 1048576 lines of +y in the output, which takes a looooooong
+time to print.
+  $ hg diff -r 2:3 | head -n 20
   $ hg diff -r 2:6
   diff -r e989d0fa3764 -r 752e3a0d8488 large.bin
   --- a/large.bin	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000