Bert Huijben wrote: >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1459410 >> Log: >> In several tests in merge_tests.py, change directory to the WC first, so >> the paths printed during the test run are much shorter than they would >> otherwise be, to ease debugging. > > Can we make this optional behavior of the testsuite (or maybe just > sbox.build()) > somehow?
I would like to, but have tried before and it's actually very hard. We store several key paths as relative paths in the test suite framework -- path to where all the tests' working copies should be created, path to where the read-only Greek repository is to be found, etc. -- without being clear what they're relative to. Some of them are inter-related, and so the simple trick of changing directory to the WC dir and then setting sbox.wc_dir='' only works as long as we don't then try to use certain other functions such as cloning the WC or accessing the pristine Greek repo. In other words, it's a hack. > I really like this behavior while debugging, while in general always testing > with the current directory can introduce other kinds of problems, just like > our > in almost every case the working copy root and repository root are the same > location during our tests. > (For some time during 1.7 development the svnversion code only worked > correctly > in this scenario and the test suite didn't notice) Yup, that's a concern. - Julian
