Introducing Test::Requires::Git
Git is a wonderful tool, and there are
a
lot
of
git
wrappers
written in Perl on CPAN. They all depend on running git
in their test suite.
Test::Requires::Git offers a simple way to declare which versions of git
a test depends on, so that it can be skipped if the available git
does not match the specification.
This module does not depend on any git
wrapper (it would be weird to test one using another), but instead simply runs `git --version`
(that command works back to git version 1.0.0 at least) to pick whatever git
happens to be in the PATH
.
It's more sophisticated than my own Test::Git has_git
function, as it supports all version comparison operators (that code comes from Git::Repository, and can also skip a specific number of tests (for use in a SKIP
block). It will also do the right thing if your test suite has already started to output some test results.
I recommend using at least version 1.002, as it's the first one that supports all the necessary test features. (I've removed all the previous releases from CPAN anyway.)
My plan for Test::Requires::Git
include adding support for Git::Features, when I've actually written it. ;-)
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