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run-tests: mechanism to report exceptions during test execution
Sometimes when running tests you introduce a ton of exceptions.
The most extreme example of this is running Mercurial with Python 3,
which currently spews thousands of exceptions when running the test
harness.
This commit adds an opt-in feature to run-tests.py to aggregate
exceptions encountered by `hg` when running tests.
When --exceptions is used, the test harness enables the
"logexceptions" extension in the test environment. This extension
wraps the Mercurial function to handle exceptions and writes
information about the exception to a random filename in a directory
defined by the test harness via an environment variable. At the
end of the test harness, these files are parsed, aggregated, and
a list of all unique Mercurial frames triggering exceptions is
printed in order of frequency.
This feature is intended to aid Python 3 development. I've only
really tested it on Python 3. There is no shortage of improvements
that could be made. e.g. we could write a separate file containing
the exception report - maybe even an HTML report. We also don't
capture which tests demonstrate the exceptions, so there's no turnkey
way to test whether a code change made an exception disappear.
Perfect is the enemy of good. I think the current patch is useful
enough to land. Whoever uses it can send patches to imprve its
usefulness.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1477
author | Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> |
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date | Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:02:32 -0800 |
parents | 1b699a208cee |
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The censor system allows retroactively removing content from files. Actually censoring a node requires using the censor extension, but the functionality for handling censored nodes is partially in core. Censored nodes in a filelog have the flag ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` set, and the contents of the censored node are replaced with a censor tombstone. For historical reasons, the tombstone is packed in the filelog metadata field ``censored``. This allows censored nodes to be (mostly) safely transmitted through old formats like changegroup versions 1 and 2. When using changegroup formats older than 3, the receiver is required to re-add the ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` flag when storing the revision. This depends on the ``censored`` metadata key never being used for anything other than censoring revisions, which is true as of January 2017. Note that the revlog flag is the authoritative marker of a censored node: the tombstone should only be consulted when looking for a reason a node was censored or when revlog flags are unavailable as mentioned above. The tombstone data is a free-form string. It's expected that users of censor will want to record the reason for censoring a node in the tombstone. Censored nodes must be able to fit in the size of the content being censored.