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@@ -658,76 +658,3 @@ Then, at the top-level: That'll generate a detailed cover report in the "cover_db_html" directory, which you can then copy to a webserver, or inspect locally in a browser. - -Smoke testing -------------- - -The Git test suite has support for smoke testing. Smoke testing is -when you submit the results of a test run to a central server for -analysis and aggregation. - -Running a smoke tester is an easy and valuable way of contributing to -Git development, particularly if you have access to an uncommon OS on -obscure hardware. - -After building Git you can generate a smoke report like this in the -"t" directory: - - make clean smoke - -You can also pass arguments via the environment. This should make it -faster: - - GIT_TEST_OPTS='--root=/dev/shm' TEST_JOBS=10 make clean smoke - -The "smoke" target will run the Git test suite with Perl's -"TAP::Harness" module, and package up the results in a .tar.gz archive -with "TAP::Harness::Archive". The former is included with Perl v5.10.1 -or later, but you'll need to install the latter from the CPAN. See the -"Test coverage" section above for how you might do that. - -Once the "smoke" target finishes you'll see a message like this: - - TAP Archive created at <path to git>/t/test-results/git-smoke.tar.gz - -To upload the smoke report you need to have curl(1) installed, then -do: - - make smoke_report - -To upload the report anonymously. Hopefully that'll return something -like "Reported #7 added.". - -If you're going to be uploading reports frequently please request a -user account by E-Mailing gitsmoke@v.nix.is. Once you have a username -and password you'll be able to do: - - SMOKE_USERNAME=<username> SMOKE_PASSWORD=<password> make smoke_report - -You can also add an additional comment to attach to the report, and/or -a comma separated list of tags: - - SMOKE_USERNAME=<username> SMOKE_PASSWORD=<password> \ - SMOKE_COMMENT=<comment> SMOKE_TAGS=<tags> \ - make smoke_report - -Once the report is uploaded it'll be made available at -http://smoke.git.nix.is, here's an overview of Recent Smoke Reports -for Git: - - http://smoke.git.nix.is/app/projects/smoke_reports/1 - -The reports will also be mirrored to GitHub every few hours: - - http://github.com/gitsmoke/smoke-reports - -The Smolder SQLite database is also mirrored and made available for -download: - - http://github.com/gitsmoke/smoke-database - -Note that the database includes hashed (with crypt()) user passwords -and E-Mail addresses. Don't use a valuable password for the smoke -service if you have an account, or an E-Mail address you don't want to -be publicly known. The user accounts are just meant to be convenient -labels, they're not meant to be secure. |