[darcs-devel] [darcs #255] Comprehensible shell test output

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Thu Mar 10 14:08:35 2005: New ticket: 255.
Transaction: Ticket created by guest
       Queue: Darcs
     Subject: Comprehensible shell test output
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: 
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: http://bugs.darcs.net/.//Ticket/Display.html?id=255 >

The attached patch is a harness for the shell tests to format their
output and make the results easy to read like so:

0 /usr/local/src/darcs-1.0.2$ make test_shell
test -f c_context.c || echo unknown | ./stringify context_string >
c_context.c
Running add_in_subdir.sh ...                     passed.
Running addmv.sh ...                             passed.
Running addrace.sh ...                           passed.
Running addrm.sh ...                             passed.
Running annotate.sh ...                          passed.
Running bad_pending_after_pull.sh ...            passed.
Running directory_confusion.sh ...               passed.
Running get_tag.sh ...                           passed.
Running illegal_mv.sh ...                        passed.
...etc...

The output of each test goes into tests/test_output/ rather than to the
screen.  Upon failure the user is pointed at the output file to read.

0 /usr/local/src/darcs-1.0.2/tests$ perl -w shell_harness
merge_three_patches.sh
Running merge_three_patches.sh ...               FAILED!
        Output available as test_output/merge_three_patches.sh.out
TEST FAILED!
        merge_three_patches.sh


This patch includes the patch provided in #253.  The result being less
verbose, easier to read test results that a user can follow at least in
so far as figuring out if anything is broken.  The results are still too
verbose and inconsistent, but its an improvement.