basic unit test for local tests to assist avery

fre/tests/test_fre_pp_cli.py

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 ''' test "fre pp" calls '''
 
+import os
+import shutil
+from pathlib import Path
+import subprocess
+
+import pytest
+
 from click.testing import CliRunner
 
 from fre import fre
@@ -39,6 +46,29 @@ def test_cli_fre_pp_checkout_opt_dne():
     result = runner.invoke(fre.fre, args=["pp", "checkout", "optionDNE"])
     assert result.exit_code == 2
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason='CI/CD fails bc it hates it when code pulls in other code, ot the best of ians knowledge') #TODO
+def test_cli_fre_pp_checkout_case_1():
+    ''' fre pp checkout '''
+    clone_dir = os.path.expanduser("~/cylc-src")+'/exp__plat__target_test9'
+    if Path(clone_dir).exists():
+        shutil.rmtree(clone_dir)
+    result = runner.invoke(fre.fre,
+                           args = ["pp", "checkout", "-e", "exp", "-p", "plat", "-t", "target_test9"],
+                           catch_exceptions = True )
+    assert all( [ result.exit_code == 0,
+                  Path(clone_dir).exists() ] )
+
+    curr_dir=os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(clone_dir)
+    #subprocess.run( ["git", "checkout", "-b", "2024.01" ] ) #sanity check to make sure the condition you want below works
+    git_branch_out=subprocess.run(
+                                 ["git", "branch"],
+                                 capture_output = True ).stdout.decode().split('\n')
+    os.chdir(curr_dir)
+    #assert '* main' in git_branch_out # sanity check to make sure the condition you want below works
+    assert '* 2024.01' in git_branch_out
+
+
 #-- fre pp configure-xml
 def test_cli_fre_pp_configure_xml():
     ''' fre pp configure-xml '''