Re: [PATCH] t5150: skip request-pull test if Perl is disabled

[Ruud van Asseldonk <dev@veniogames.com>]

Thanks for having a look Jonathan.

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ruud van Asseldonk wrote:
> 
>> The git-request-pull.sh script invokes Perl,
> 
> Okay, on second glance I found it:
> 
>    set fnord $(git ls-remote "$url" | @@PERL@@ -e "$find_matching_ref" "${remote:-HEAD}" "$headrev")
> 
> This does seem pretty inherently to require perl, so makes sense.
> 
> I wonder if we can generalize this.  For example, would it make sense to
> have a helper that looks for @@PERL@@ in a file,  so we could say
> 
> 	if uses_perl git-request-pull.sh && ! test_have_prereq PERL
> 	then
> 		...
> 	fi
> 
> That way, this would be more futureproof in case someone eliminates
> the perl dependency (either by improving that particular parsing step
> or by rewriting the whole program in C).

That sounds like a good idea. How about turning that into a test itself? 
The test would check that the script mentions @@PERL@@, as the first 
subtest. That way, if somebody removes the Perl dependency in the 
future, that will make the test fail, and that will be a reminder to 
remove the check from the test, so the test runs unconditionally.

> In any event,
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> 
> Do the request-pull tests in t7006-pager.sh need the same treatment?

I think these tests are fine, they run "git -p request-pull", not enough 
arguments to make request-pull do something, so it prints its usage and 
exits with 1. The tests use test_must_fail to verify the exit code, and 
printing usage does go through the pager. request-pull does not call 
Perl when it only prints its usage.