From 7724ec8b295feb8e766b11de02b7d695d88f2fd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryce Kwon <bryce@brycekwon.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 09:36:38 -1000
Subject: Test the robots tag on ordinary pages

Only the login page's tag was checked, so printing noindex everywhere
would have taken every site out of the search engines and passed.
---
 tests/t0005-markup.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/t0005-markup.sh b/tests/t0005-markup.sh
index 3f6b8e7..8251393 100755
--- a/tests/t0005-markup.sh
+++ b/tests/t0005-markup.sh
@@ -153,6 +153,26 @@ test_expect_success 'an error page names the error where a page names itself' '
 	grep "<title>Not Found - $site</title>" tmp
 '
 
+# A site is indexed but its links not followed unless robots says otherwise,
+# and an empty value leaves the choice to the crawler.
+test_expect_success 'the pages ask robots what the robots setting says' '
+	cgit_ok hooksrc "url=hooks/" >tmp &&
+	test_grep "<meta name=.robots. content=.index, nofollow.>" tmp &&
+	{
+		echo "robots=noindex, noarchive" &&
+		cat hooksrc
+	} >robotsrc &&
+	cgit_ok robotsrc "url=hooks/" >tmp &&
+	test_grep "<meta name=.robots. content=.noindex, noarchive.>" tmp &&
+	{
+		echo "robots=" &&
+		cat hooksrc
+	} >robotsrc &&
+	cgit_ok robotsrc "url=hooks/" >tmp &&
+	test_grep "<meta name=.generator." tmp &&
+	test_grep ! "<meta name=.robots." tmp
+'
+
 # A browser gives these elements a monospace font of its own, which would
 # otherwise win over the one a theme sets through --font-mono.
 test_expect_success 'every monospace element takes the theme font' '
-- 
cgit 2.12.1