frank-ci/docs/test.md

Setting up a test environment for development:

1. Create on a host where you have an ssh account an empty git repository with:

   $ mkdir /path/to/repo

   $ cd /path/to/repo 
   $ git init --bare
   

2. Add the post-update.sh and post-update.conf to the hooks directory. Rename post-update.sh to post-update to activate it.

3. On the development machine clone this repo with:

   $ git clone host:~/path/to/repo

4. Copy the script test_post_update.sh from the direcory test to the git repository you created. Issue the command

   $ git checkout -b dev

   This will create a branch dev in adition to the existing master branch. Run the script

   $ bash test_post_update.sh

5. Every time you need to test frank-ci you can now issue test_post_update.sh. This script will issue junk commits on both branches and then push them. This will invoke frank-ci, since the post-update will sumbit a JSON record to the server where frank-ci is listening.