RFR: Really fix so tests ignore .gitconfig

Erik Helin ehelin at openjdk.java.net
Wed Mar 17 09:20:41 UTC 2021


On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:08:02 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> It turned out that [SKARA-913](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/SKARA-913) which fixed unwanted side effects of [SKARA-868](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/SKARA-868), in fact broke Skara testing completely the way SKARA-868 was supposed to fix. In SKARA-913 only a few of the Skara tests were properly configured to really ignore the local configuration; something I discovered lately when running all tests on a machine with a .gitconfig that foils several git tests from running.
> 
> Since there is no really single point of entry to say to the Repository logic "I am now running a test", I have created a wrapper TestableRepository.init(), which calls Repository.init() and makes sure ignoreConfiguration is on.
> 
> At least this solves the problem for me. There might be other tests hiding where other strange configurations provoke a failure; I know of no systematic way to find all these, so I'll guess we have to fix that when it is discovered.

Looks good!

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Marked as reviewed by ehelin (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/skara/pull/1066


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