[PATCH] run-tests: allow run-tests.py to run tests outside current directory

[timeless]

Please provide a test.
Basically, your test should generate such a directory+test file and
call run-tests (with --local) with it.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, David R. MacIver <david at drmaciver.com> wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User David R. MacIver <david at drmaciver.com>
> # Date 1455708193 0
> #      Wed Feb 17 11:23:13 2016 +0000
> # Branch all
> # Node ID 29fd0a20bb724be92c2bcc6a5fa71eaca290c158
> # Parent  a036e1ae1fbe88ab99cb861ebfc2e4da7a3912ca
> run-tests: allow run-tests.py to run tests outside current directory
>
> When reloading tests, run-tests.py was assuming that it could look
> up the test by the basename, which only works if you are running
> tests which are in the current directory.
>
> This patch changes that lookup to use the full path. This is all
> that was needed, and does not appear to cause any problems for
> any of the existing testing work flows based on running the
> suggested commands at the top of run-tests.py.
>
> Motivation: In order to test Mercurial with Hypothesis (according
> to https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HypothesisPlan) it is
> useful to be able to generate temporary test files and execute
> them. Generating temporary files in the tests/ directory leads to
> a lot of suboptimal clutter.
>
> diff -r a036e1ae1fbe -r 29fd0a20bb72 tests/run-tests.py
> --- a/tests/run-tests.py        Sun Feb 07 00:49:31 2016 -0600
> +++ b/tests/run-tests.py        Wed Feb 17 11:23:13 2016 +0000
> @@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@
>              def get():
>                  num_tests[0] += 1
>                  if getattr(test, 'should_reload', False):
> -                    return self._loadtest(test.bname, num_tests[0])
> +                    return self._loadtest(test.path, num_tests[0])
>                  return test
>              if not os.path.exists(test.path):
>                  result.addSkip(test, "Doesn't exist")
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