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    Use prerequisite tags to skip tests that depend on symbolic links · 704a3143
    Johannes Sixt authored
    
    
    Many tests depend on that symbolic links work.  This introduces a check
    that sets the prerequisite tag SYMLINKS if the file system supports
    symbolic links.  Since so many tests have to check for this prerequisite,
    we do the check in test-lib.sh, so that we don't need to repeat the test
    in many scripts.
    
    To check for 'ln -s' failures, you can use a FAT partition on Linux:
    
    $ mkdosfs -C git-on-fat 1000000
    $ sudo mount -o loop,uid=j6t,gid=users,shortname=winnt git-on-fat /mnt
    
    Clone git to /mnt and
    
    $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t0001.1[34] t0010 t1301 t403[34] t4129.[47] t5701.7
              t7701.3 t9100 t9101.26 t9119 t9124.[67] t9200.10 t9600.6' \
            make test
    
    (These additionally skipped tests depend on POSIX permissions that FAT on
    Linux does not provide.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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