[PATCH] tests: use Git's test framework

[Ferry Huberts]

On 04/04/13 16:32, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:09 PM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
>> Obviously there are a number of further changes that can be done on top
>> of this to avoid the now-unnecessary wrapper functions and use a test
>> prerequisite for HTML tidy but I don't want to work on those unless
>> there is agreement that this is a sensible direction.
> 
> If moving forward with this would indeed result in reducing the
> complexity of our own test harness, I'm okay with that. Removing our
> wrapper would be quite nice. AFAIK, git's testing infrastructure is
> fairly stable, so I don't anticipate using it will introduce any
> unforeseen hiccups down the road.
> 
> Maybe, though, we ought to be having a larger discussion about this.
> We're in the process of bringing cgit up to speed with git head. We're
> now relying on git's Makefile. And now we're discussing using git's
> test infrastructure as well. We're getting cozier with git.
> 
> Is this something we want to do? Or should we say, "let's just be
> friends", before a child is on the way, and then a fight followed by a
> nasty divorce?
> 
> My feeling is that reusing as much of git's existing infrastructure is
> ideal and should be encouraged. One of the strengths of cgit has
> always been that we use the actual meat of git and are tied to it in
> an intimate way. In fact, down the road, if cgit is in a ripe position
> for merging in some respect with git-itself, I think this is also
> something I'd be in favor of. (But hey, it's only the third date;
> let's not get too excited about such futures ;-).
> 

I'm completely in favor of doing this, it will make upstreaming cgit
into git way easier once cgit is in a good enough position

> So from this perspective, I'd be in support of relying on git's test harness.
> 
> But there might be other considerations I've overlooked; my ears are
> open to dissenting opinions.
> 
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Ferry Huberts