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Fix version of test seed branches to specific revisions. Only clone if necessary.

Ramya Authappan requested to merge github/fork/cirosantilli/test-seed-reset into master

Created by: cirosantilli

This PR tries to do update-ref on each branch of gitlab-test to fixed versions, and only then fetches. This achieves the following goals:

  • no more need to use the network to run tests. Continuation of and rationale at: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/7823 . Running a single test 15s for me, and just cloning gitlab-test takes 6.

  • tests cannot break spuriously on old branches. Before this pull, changes to gitlab-test could break your tests at any time. Not anymore since we use update-ref to determined versions. This is only possible because we have fixed the versions of each branch.

  • makes it easier to develop gitlab-test together with new tests: this PR generates a non bare version of gitlab-test at tmp/test/gitlab-test which you can edit and use with new test cases immediately.

    In order to develop gitlab-test, you must comment out the corresponding branch line from BRANCH_SHA before you are done, since you cannot know the SHA, and after you are done you must update it.

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