The chainlint tests are a series of individual files, each holding a
test body. The "make check-chainlint" target assembles them into a
single file, adding a "test_expect_success" function call around each.
Let's instead include that function call in the files themselves. This
is a little more boilerplate, but has several advantages:
1. You can now run chainlint manually on snippets with just "perl
chainlint.perl chainlint/foo.test". This can make developing and
debugging a little easier.
2. Many of the tests implicitly relied on the syntax of the lines
added by the Makefile (in particular the use of single-quotes).
This assumption is much easier to see when the single-quotes are
alongside the test body.
3. We had no way to test how the chainlint program handled
various test_expect_success lines themselves. Now we'll be able to
check variations.
The change to the .test files was done mechanically, using the same
test names they would have been assigned by the Makefile (this is
important to match the expected output). The Makefile has the minimal
change to drop the extra lines; there are more cleanups possible but a
future patch in this series will rewrite this substantially anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
chainlint.sed swallows top-level here-docs to avoid being fooled by
content which might look like start-of-subshell. It likewise swallows
here-docs in subshells to avoid marking content lines as breaking the
&&-chain, and to avoid being fooled by content which might look like
end-of-subshell, start-of-nested-subshell, or other specially-recognized
constructs.
At the time of implementation, it was believed that it was not possible
to support arbitrary here-doc tag names since 'sed' provides no way to
stash the opening tag name in a variable for later comparison against a
line signaling end-of-here-doc. Consequently, tag names are hard-coded,
with "EOF" being the only tag recognized at the top-level, and only
"EOF", "EOT", and "INPUT_END" being recognized within subshells. Also,
special care was taken to avoid being confused by here-docs nested
within other here-docs.
In practice, this limited number of hard-coded tag names has been "good
enough" for the 13000+ existing Git test, despite many of those tests
using tags other than the recognized ones, since the bodies of those
here-docs do not contain content which would fool the linter.
Nevertheless, the situation is not ideal since someone writing new
tests, and choosing a name not in the "blessed" set could potentially
trigger a false-positive.
To address this shortcoming, upgrade chainlint.sed to handle arbitrary
here-doc tag names, both at the top-level and within subshells.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --chain-lint option uses heuristics and knowledge of shell syntax to
detect broken &&-chains in subshells by pure textual inspection. The
heuristics handle a range of stylistic variations in existing tests
(evolved over the years), however, they are still best-guesses. As such,
it is possible for future changes to accidentally break assumptions upon
which the heuristics are based. Protect against this possibility by
adding tests which check the linter itself for correctness.
In addition to protecting against regressions, these tests help document
(for humans) expected behavior, which is important since the linter's
implementation language ('sed') does not necessarily lend itself to easy
comprehension.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King