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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-31 14:08:27 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-31 14:08:27 -0700
commit68a6e976a821ebf2b3766efb167fa716cbf8c188 (patch)
tree5232a164b8b372e34062ac73ff32be9f93b0de28 /t/README
parentMerge branch 'js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref' into maint (diff)
parenttest-lib: set BASH_XTRACEFD automatically (diff)
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Merge branch 'jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere' into maint
Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests that capture the standard error stream and check what the command said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs being tested intact. * jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere: test-lib: set BASH_XTRACEFD automatically
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@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ appropriately before running "make".
-x::
Turn on shell tracing (i.e., `set -x`) during the tests
- themselves. Implies `--verbose`. Note that this can cause
- failures in some tests which redirect and test the
- output of shell functions. Use with caution.
+ themselves. Implies `--verbose`. Note that in non-bash shells,
+ this can cause failures in some tests which redirect and test
+ the output of shell functions. Use with caution.
-d::
--debug::