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Motivation¶

Consider transient openQA instances like openQA-single-instance-container but also new instances where we do not want to rely on admins to manually put stuff into /var/lib/openqa/share/tests. For those we want to ensure that openQA automatically clones git repos specified as part of tests but also keeps those working copies up to date. In #159171 mostly https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/5622 was merged but AFAIK we have neither a system level test demonstrating that behaviour nor documentation explaining the functionality.

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: Documentation and/or system level tests demonstrate the functionality introduced in #159171
• AC2: Assuming #159171 does what it promises then applicable openqa-in-openqa tests as well as openqa-bootstrap should not clone tests+needles but rely on openQA to do that

Suggestions¶

• Get to understand the original feature if you haven't had the opportunity yet
• Add documentation on open.qa
• Enable the feature in one of the openQA-in-openQA test scenarios and remove the manual checkout
• Fix any minor issues coming up from the system level testing as needed

Remarks¶

It doesn't make sense to remove the cloning in openqa-bootstrap as the bootstrapped instance is still supposed to run tests from non-Git sources out of the box. Additionally, the download in advance might be something expected from the bootstrap script (at this point) and we should not break it. For openQA-in-openQA tests it makes also only sense to change scenarios that are using Git sources (but we should ensure we have at least one such scenario).