Some changes to how argparse is used in render tests:
1. Use the common approach of one dash for single-letter options (`-b`)
and two dashes for longer options (`--blender`). In this commit that
just means changing single-dashed (`-testdir`) to double-dashed
(`--testdir`).
2. Remove unnecessary `nargs` arguments. The code was telling `argparse`
to put CLI arguments into a list of one item, and then had code to
turn that one-item list into the item itself. I've just removed the
`nargs` argument altogether, as that just produces the desired
value without requiring more code.
I've also removed `nargs="+"` from the handling of the `--blender`
parameter, as that allowed for multiple occurrences of `--blender
{path}` but was silently ignoring all of those except the first.
To ensure that required arguments are present, the code now uses
`required=True` instead of `nargs`.
3. Add a `description` parameter so that `--help` shows what the
test script actually does. Also it helps people (like me) who want
to figure out which blend file is actually being opened by the
test, without making the test itself more verbose.
No functional changes, except that you now cannot add multiple
`--blender` arguments any more (the CLI invocation will fail). This wasn't
used anywhere I could find, though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131666
This change fixes confusion situation when the render output
is an RGBA image: the difference in color was not visible in
the report because alpha channel was all zeros. This is due
to idiff performing per-channel difference.
The solution to this problem is to have separate images for
color and alpha difference, which makes it clear where the
difference actually is coming from.
Some tests like cycles, sequencer and compositor batch together multiple
tests in a single Blender invocation. This makes them run faster, but
makes debugging harder. This is an option to disable that batching.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114603
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
