We have a couple of tests that depend on Perl for textconv scripts.
Refactor these tests to instead be implemented via shell utilities so
that we can drop a couple of PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisites.
Note that the conversion in t4030 is not a one-to-one equivalent to the
previous textconv script. Before this change we used to essentially do a
hexdump via Perl. The obvious conversion here would be to use `test-tool
hexdump` like we do for the other tests. But this would lead to a ripple
effect where we would have to adapt a bunch of other tests with a bunch
of seemingly unrelated changes, which would be somewhat awkward.
Instead, we're going with the minimum viable change: the test files we
write contain "\001" and "\000", and the test's expectation is that
those get translated into proper ASCII characters. So instead of doing a
full hexdump, we simply use tr(1) to translate these specific bytes.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A bunch of tests rely on Perl to print data in various different ways.
These usages fall into the following categories:
- Print data conditionally by matching patterns. These usecases can be
converted to use awk(1) rather easily.
- Print data repeatedly. These usecases can typically be converted to
use a combination of `test-tool genzeros` and sed(1).
- Print data in reverse. These usecases can be converted to use
awk(1) or `sort -r`.
Refactor the tests accordingly so that we can drop a couple of
PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisites.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a bunch of tests that use Perl to perform substitution via the
"s/" operator. These usecases can be trivially replaced with sed(1) and
tr(1).
Refactor the tests accordingly so that we can drop a couple of
PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisites.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a bunch of tests that use Perl to perform character
transliteration via the "y/" or "tr/" operator. These usecases can be
trivially replaced with tr(1).
Refactor the tests accordingly so that we can drop a couple of
PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisites.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Makefile for our tests has a couple of targets that depend on Perl.
Adapt those targets to only run conditionally in case Perl is available
on the system so that it becomes possible to run the test suite without
Perl.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Perl interpreter used to be a strict dependency for running our test
suite. This requirement is explicit in the Meson build system, where we
require Perl to be present unless tests have been disabled.
With the preceding commits we have loosened this restriction so that it
is now possible to run tests when Perl is unavailable. Loosen the above
requirement accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of our tests depend on the PERL prerequisite even though it
isn't needed. These tests fall into one of the following classes:
- The underlying logic used to be implemented in Perl but isn't
anymore. Here we can simply drop the dependency altogether.
- The test logic used to depend on Perl but doesn't anymore. Again, we
can simply drop the dependency.
- The test logic still relies on a Perl interpreter. These tests
should use the newly introduced PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisite.
Adapt test cases accordingly.
Note that in t1006 we have to introduce another new prerequisite
depending on whether or not the IPC::Open2 module is available. Funny
enough, when starting to use `test_lazy_prereq` to do so we also get a
conflict of variables with the "script" variable that contains the Perl
logic because `test_run_lazy_prereq_` also sets that variable. We thus
rename the variable in t1006 to "perl_script".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the early days of Git, Perl was used quite prominently throughout the
project. This has changed significantly as almost all of the executables
we ship nowadays have eventually been rewritten in C. Only a handful of
subsystems remain that require Perl:
- gitweb, a read-only web interface.
- A couple of scripts that allow importing repositories from GNU Arch,
CVS and Subversion.
- git-send-email(1), which can be used to send mails.
- git-request-pull(1), which is used to request somebody to pull from
a URL by sending an email.
- git-filter-branch(1), which uses Perl with the `--state-branch`
option. This command is typically recommended against nowadays in
favor of git-filter-repo(1).
- Our Perl bindings for Git.
- The netrc Git credential helper.
None of these subsystems can really be considered to be part of the
"core" of Git, and an installation without them is fully functional.
It is more likely than not that an end user wouldn't even notice that
any features are missing if those tools weren't installed. But while
Perl nowadays very much is an optional dependency of Git, there is a
significant limitation when Perl isn't available: developers cannot run
our test suite.
Preceding commits have started to lift this restriction by removing the
strict dependency on Perl in many central parts of the test library. But
there are still many tests that rely on small Perl helpers to do various
different things.
Introduce a new PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisite that guards all tests
that require Perl. This prerequisite is explicitly different than the
preexisting PERL prerequisite:
- PERL records whether or not features depending on the Perl
interpreter are built.
- PERL_TEST_HELPERS records whether or not a Perl interpreter is
available for our tests.
By having these two separate prerequisites we can thus distinguish
between tests that inherently depend on Perl because the underlying
feature does, and those tests that depend on Perl because the test
itself is using Perl.
Adapt all tests to set the PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisite as needed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `test_readlink()` helper function reads a symbolic link and returns
the path it is pointing to. It is thus equivalent to the readlink(1)
utility, which isn't available on all supported platforms. As such, it
is implemented using Perl so that we can use it even on platforms where
the shell utility isn't available.
While using readlink(1) is not an option, what we can do is to implement
the logic ourselves in our test-tool. Do so, which allows a bunch of
tests to pass when Perl is not available.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `test_copy_bytes()` helper function copies up to N bytes from stdin
to stdout. This is implemented using Perl, but it can be trivially
adapted to instead use dd(1).
Refactor the helper accordingly, which allows a bunch of tests to pass
when Perl is not available.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a couple of helper functions that translate characters, e.g.
from LF to NUL or NUL to 'Q' and vice versa. These helpers use Perl
scripts, but they can be trivially adapted to instead use tr(1).
Note that one specialty here is the handling of NUL characters in tr(1),
which historically wasn't implemented correctly on all platforms. But
quoting tr(1p):
It was considered that automatically stripping NUL characters from
the input was not correct functionality. However, the removal of -n
in a later proposal does not remove the requirement that tr
correctly process NUL characters in its input stream.
So when tr(1) is implemented following the POSIX standard then it is
expected to handle the transliteration of NUL just fine.
Refactor the helpers accordingly, which allows a bunch of tests to pass
when Perl is not available.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before executing tests we first sanitize the environment. Part of the
sanitization is to unset a couple of environment variables that we know
will change the behaviour of Git. This is done with a small Perl script,
which has the consequence that having a Perl interpreter available is a
strict requirement for running our unit tests.
The logic itself isn't particularly involved: we simply unset every
environment variable whose key starts with 'GIT_', but then explicitly
allow a subset of these.
Refactor the logic to instead use sed(1) so that it becomes possible to
execute our tests without Perl.
Based-on-patch-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our chainlint script verifies that test files have proper '&&' chains.
This script is written in Perl and executed for every test file before
executing the test logic itself.
In subsequent commits we're about to refactor our test suite so that
Perl becomes an optional dependency, only. And while it is already
possible to disable this linter, developers that don't have Perl
available at all would always have to disable the linter manually, which
is rather cumbersome.
Disable the chain linter automatically in case PERL_PATH isn't set to
make this a bit less annoying. Bail out with an error in case the
developer has asked explicitly for the chain linter.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git version --build-options" stopped showing zlib version by
mistake due to recent refactoring, which has been corrected.
* tc/zlib-ng-fix:
help: print zlib-ng version number
help: include git-zlib.h to print zlib version
Commit bc26f7690a (clone: make it possible to specify --tags,
2025-02-06) added a new paragraph in the middle of this list item. By
adding an empty line rather than using a list continuation, we broke the
list continuation, with the new paragraph ending up funnily indented.
Restore the chain of list continuations.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Update for 2.49.0.
- Fix numerous typos found by spelling checker.
- Fix more straight quotes.
- Harmonize translation of "blob" (to "blob", not "blobb").
- Harmonize translation of "reflog" (to "referenslogg").
Signed-off-by: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
In 3f763ddf28 (fetch: set remote/HEAD if it does not exist, 2024-11-22),
unconditionally adds "HEAD" to the list of ref prefixes we send to the
server.
This breaks a core assumption that the list of prefixes we send to the
server is complete. We must either send all prefixes we care about, or
none at all (in the latter case the server then advertises everything).
The tag following code is careful to only add "refs/tags/" to the list
of prefixes if there are already entries in the prefix list. But because
the new code from 3f763ddf28 runs after the tag code, and because it
unconditionally adds to the prefix list, we may end up with a prefix
list that _should_ have "refs/tags/" in it, but doesn't.
When that is the case, the server does not advertise any tags, and our
auto-following breaks because we never learned about any tags in the
first place.
Fix this by only adding "HEAD" to the ref prefixes when we know that we
are already limiting the advertisement. In either case we'll learn about
HEAD (either through the limited advertisement, or implicitly through a
full advertisement).
Reported-by: Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When building against zlib-ng, the header file `zlib.h` is not included,
but `zlib-ng.h` is included instead. It's `zlib.h` that defines
`ZLIB_VERSION` and that macro is used to print out zlib version in
`git-version(1)` with `--build-options`. But when it's not defined, no
version is printed.
`zlib-ng.h` defines another macro: `ZLIBNG_VERSION`. Use that macro to
print the zlib-ng version in `git version --build-options` when it's
set. Otherwise fallback to `ZLIB_VERSION`.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 41f1a8435a (git-compat-util: move include of "compat/zlib.h" into
"git-zlib.h", 2025-01-28) some code was refactored to enable easier
linking against zlib-ng.
This removed `zlib.h` being indirectly included in `help.c`. As this
file uses `ZLIB_VERSION` to print the version number of zlib when
running git-version(1) with `--build-options`, this resulted in a
regression.
Include `git-zlib.h` directly into `help.c` to print zlib version
information. This brings back the zlib version in the output of
`git version --build-options`.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hotfix to help building Git-for-Windows.
* js/win-2.49-build-fixes:
cmake: generalize the handling of the `CLAR_TEST_OBJS` list
meson: fix sorting
ident: stop assuming that `gw_gecos` is writable
Some future breaking changes would remove certain parts of the
default repository, which were still described even when the
documents were built for the future with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES.
* pw/repo-layout-doc-update:
docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes
A late-comer to the v2.49.0 party, `sk/unit-test-oid`, added yet another
array item to `CLAR_TEST_OBJS`, causing the `win+VS build` job to fail
with symptoms like this one:
unit-tests-lib.lib(u-oid-array.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved
external symbol cl_parse_any_oid referenced in function fill_array
This is a similar scenario to the one that forced me to write
8afda42fce60 (cmake: generalize the handling of the `UNIT_TEST_OBJS`
list, 2024-09-18): The hard-coded echo of `CLAR_TEST_OBJS` in
`CMakeLists.txt` that recapitulates faithfully what was already
hard-coded in `Makefile` would either have to be updated whack-a-mole
style, or generalized.
Just like I chose the latter option for `UNIT_TEST_OBJS`, I now do the
same for `CLAR_TEST_OBJS`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 904339edbd80 (Introduce support for the Meson build system,
2024-12-06) the `meson.build` file was introduced, adding also a
Windows-specific list of source files. This list was obviously meant to
be sorted alphabetically, but there is one mistake. Let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 590e081dea7c (ident: add NO_GECOS_IN_PWENT for systems without
pw_gecos in struct passwd, 2011-05-19), code was introduced to iterate
over the `gw_gecos` field; The loop variable is of type `char *`, which
assumes that `gw_gecos` is writable.
However, it is not necessarily writable (and it is a bad idea to have it
writable in the first place), so let's switch the loop variable type to
`const char *`.
This is not a new problem, but what is new is the Meson build. While it
does not trigger in CI builds, imitating the commands of
`ci/run-build-and-tests.sh` in a regular Git for Windows SDK (`meson
setup build . --fatal-meson-warnings --warnlevel 2 --werror --wrap-mode
nofallback -Dfuzzers=true` followed by `meson compile -C build --`
results in this beautiful error:
"cc" [...] -o libgit.a.p/ident.c.obj "-c" ../ident.c
../ident.c: In function 'copy_gecos':
../ident.c:68:18: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
68 | for (src = get_gecos(w); *src && *src != ','; src++) {
| ^
cc1.exe: all warnings being treated as errors
Now, why does this not trigger in CI? The answer is as simple as it is
puzzling: The `win+Meson` job completely side-steps Git for Windows'
development environment, opting instead to use the GCC that is on the
`PATH` in GitHub-hosted `windows-latest` runners. That GCC is pinned to
v12.2.0 and targets the UCRT (unlikely to change any time soon, see
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/win25/20250303.1/images/windows/toolsets/toolset-2022.json#L132-L141).
That is in stark contrast to Git for Windows, which uses GCC v14.2.0 and
targets MSVCRT. Git for Windows' `Makefile`-based build also obviously
uses different compiler flags, otherwise this compile error would have
had plenty of opportunity in almost 14 years to surface.
In other words, contrary to my expectations, the `win+Meson` job is
ill-equipped to replace the `win build` job because it exercises a
completely different tool version/compiler flags vector than what Git
for Windows needs.
Nevertheless, there is currently this huge push, including breaking
changes after -rc1 and all, for switching to Meson. Therefore, we need
to make it work, somehow, even in Git for Windows' SDK, hence this
patch, at this point in time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
