tests/sources/git.py: Skip tests that assume too new a git

test_track_invalid_submodule depends on being able to remove a submodule
by `git rm $submoduledir`, but old versions of git don't update .gitmodules
so BuildStream still thinks there's a submodule present.

For expediency the test is skipped rather than changed to manually remove
the entry from .gitmodules if git hasn't done it,
since in the common case git is new enough to do that itself.

test_git_describe expects --first-parent to find another tag,
but `bst track` will gracefully degrade if the option doesn't work
so a different history will be retained with old versions of git.

It's of marginal benefit to add additional cruft
to test for different output on old versions of git that won't persist forever.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/testutils/site.py b/tests/testutils/site.py
index 6ef22babb..b7bfa11cf 100644
--- a/tests/testutils/site.py
+++ b/tests/testutils/site.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # so we dont have to repeat this everywhere
 #
 import os
+import subprocess
 import sys
 
 from buildstream import _site, utils, ProgramNotFoundError
@@ -16,8 +17,12 @@ except ProgramNotFoundError:
 try:
     utils.get_host_tool('git')
     HAVE_GIT = True
+    out = str(subprocess.check_output(['git', '--version']), "utf-8")
+    version = tuple(int(x) for x in out.split(' ', 2)[2].split('.'))
+    HAVE_OLD_GIT = version < (1, 8, 5)
 except ProgramNotFoundError:
     HAVE_GIT = False
+    HAVE_OLD_GIT = False
 
 try:
     utils.get_host_tool('ostree')