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Re: Need to resolve expected behavior of XFailing tests caused by tree conflicts (Issue #3209)

From: Stephen Butler <sbutler_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:06:49 +0100

Hi Paul,

summary: still hacking on groups 1 & 2, 3 is done, 4 is still open
for discussion.

Some details inline, for anyone interested.

Steve

Quoting Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Stephen Butler <sbutler_at_elego.de> wrote:
>> Quoting Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>>> While reviewing issue #3209 I went through all the XFailing tests in
>>> checkout_tests.py, update_tests.py, switch_tests.py, and
>>> merge_tests.py looking for tests that fail because their expectations
>>> were not adjusted to account for new tree conflict behavior.
[...]
>>> =======
>>> GROUP 1
>>> =======
>>>
>>> checkout_tests.py 13 'co handles obstructing paths scheduled for add'
>>> update_tests.py 34 'update handles obstructing paths scheduled for add'
>>> switch_tests.py 21 'forced switch detects tree conflicts'
>>>
>>> These three tests all cover behavior added in r22257:
>>>
>>> Enable up/sw/co to tolerate obstructions scheduled
>>> for addition without history.
[...]
>> I'd prefer to
>> tolerate the local-add-without-history (i.e., not raise a tree
>> conflict). To do this, I'll make the add_file() callback act like
>> add_directory(), checking for the local-add before checking for a tree
>> conflict.

I think I have a fix for this, but am running into OS X "bus error",
I think due to SQLite, so I can't run tests and commit yet. :-(

[...]
>>>
>>> trunk>svn up checkout_tests-13
>>> ......subversionlibsvn_wcadm_files.c:672: (apr_err=155000)
>>> svn: Revision 3 doesn't match existing revision 1 in
>>> 'checkout_tests-13/A/D/M'
>>
>> You're right, the update editor is being too picky here. Calling
>> svn_wc_ensure_adm3() is overkill anyway, it includes code that creates
>> the admin dir if it doesn't exist. All we want to do here is a
>> read-only sanity check. I'll change it to compare only the incoming
>> and existing URLs. If they don't match, there will be an error.

The fix is part of the fix mentioned above.

>>
>>>
>>>
>>> =======
>>> GROUP 2
>>> =======
>>>
>>> update_tests.py 31 'forced up fails with some types of obstructions'
>>>
>>> This test fails when we a (--forced) update tries to add a directory
>>> when a versioned directory of the same name already exists.
[...]
>>> Shouldn't the update simply tolerate A/C/I's presence and simply bring
>>> A/C up to r2? Though if A/C/I pointed to a different location then
>>> there should be an error, but what?
>>
>> I agree, it would be nice to subsume the existing A/C/I working copy
>> when checking out a new working copy in the parent dir, and simply to
>> bring A/C/I up to date, raising new conflicts within it as necessary.
>>
>> If the URLs don't match, I'll raise an error, because it's the same
>> situation as an existing added-without-history item (see end of "GROUP
>> 1", above).
>>
>>>
>>> FWIW this doesn't seem a very common use case. The old behavior was
>>> added by me back with the r20945 'takeover' functionality, and IIRC it
>>> was simply because this was a possibility and the code had to do
>>> *something* in this case.

Not done yet.

>>>
>>>
>>> =======
>>> GROUP 3
>>> =======
>>>
>>> update_tests.py 50 'tree conflicts on update 2.3'
>>>
>>> This tests that updates of tree conflicted paths report the TCs as
>>> skipped, but what exactly does 2.3 refer to?
>>
>> To no other document. The names 2.1 and 2.2 are arbitrary, too.
>> Descriptive docstrings might help.

Better docstrings checked in on trunk as r35683. At least I'm able
to finish something today!

>>>
>>> =======
>>> GROUP 4
>>> =======
>>>
>>> merge_tests.py 20 'merge into missing must not break working copy'
>>>
>>> In r31326 (on the tree-conflicts branch) this test was changed to
>>> expect a tree conflict when merging into a directory that has a
>>> missing subtree (to be clear, this is missing in the '!' removed by a
>>> non-svn command sense of missing). The current (and pre-TC?) behavior
>>> was to report the missing subtrees as skipped.
>>>
>>> Why is a tree conflict expected here? We report the files as skipped
>>> during the merge and they show as missing in status. You can't even
>>> commit the change without updating first to get the missing items
>>> back. Yes, at that point you could commit and most likely you won't
>>> have what you want in the repos, but you must willfully ignore a lot
>>> of warnings that something is not quite right.
>>>
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Any progress on any of the aforementioned todos? If not, will you be
> able to work on any of them? We still have issue #3209 as a blocker
> for 1.6 so we need to figure out what, if anything really needs to be
> done before 1.6.
>
> Paul
>

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