Revision d88785e424aaf18aa3ca291c2299c599c000c6cb authored by Jeff King on 11 May 2016, 13:44:04 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 11 May 2016, 21:03:14 UTC
Passing "-x" to a test script enables the shell's "set -x"
tracing, which can help with tracking down the command that
is causing a failure. Unfortunately, it can also _cause_
failures in some tests that redirect the stderr of a shell
function.  Inside the function the shell continues to
respect "set -x", and the trace output is collected along
with whatever stderr is generated normally by the function.

You can see an example of this by running:

  ./t0040-parse-options.sh -x -i

which will fail immediately in the first test, as it
expects:

  test_must_fail some-cmd 2>output.err

to leave output.err empty (but with "-x" it has our trace
output).

Unfortunately there isn't a portable or scalable solution to
this. We could teach test_must_fail to disable "set -x", but
that doesn't help any of the other functions or subshells.

However, we can work around it by pointing the "set -x"
output to our descriptor 4, which always points to the
original stderr of the test script. Unfortunately this only
works for bash, but it's better than nothing (and other
shells will just ignore the BASH_XTRACEFD variable).

The patch itself is a simple one-liner, but note the caveats
in the accompanying comments.

Automatic tests for our "-x" option may be a bit too meta
(and a pain, because they are bash-specific), but I did
confirm that it works correctly both with regular "-x" and
with "--verbose-only=1". This works because the latter flips
"set -x" off and on for particular tests (if it didn't, we
would get tracing for all tests, as going to descriptor 4
effectively circumvents the verbose flag).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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attr.h
#ifndef ATTR_H
#define ATTR_H

/* An attribute is a pointer to this opaque structure */
struct git_attr;

/*
 * Given a string, return the gitattribute object that
 * corresponds to it.
 */
struct git_attr *git_attr(const char *);

/* Internal use */
extern const char git_attr__true[];
extern const char git_attr__false[];

/* For public to check git_attr_check results */
#define ATTR_TRUE(v) ((v) == git_attr__true)
#define ATTR_FALSE(v) ((v) == git_attr__false)
#define ATTR_UNSET(v) ((v) == NULL)

/*
 * Send one or more git_attr_check to git_check_attr(), and
 * each 'value' member tells what its value is.
 * Unset one is returned as NULL.
 */
struct git_attr_check {
	struct git_attr *attr;
	const char *value;
};

/*
 * Return the name of the attribute represented by the argument.  The
 * return value is a pointer to a null-delimited string that is part
 * of the internal data structure; it should not be modified or freed.
 */
char *git_attr_name(struct git_attr *);

int git_check_attr(const char *path, int, struct git_attr_check *);

/*
 * Retrieve all attributes that apply to the specified path.  *num
 * will be set to the number of attributes on the path; **check will
 * be set to point at a newly-allocated array of git_attr_check
 * objects describing the attributes and their values.  *check must be
 * free()ed by the caller.
 */
int git_all_attrs(const char *path, int *num, struct git_attr_check **check);

enum git_attr_direction {
	GIT_ATTR_CHECKIN,
	GIT_ATTR_CHECKOUT,
	GIT_ATTR_INDEX
};
void git_attr_set_direction(enum git_attr_direction, struct index_state *);

#endif /* ATTR_H */
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