test-lib: allow short options to be bundled

When debugging a test (or a set of tests), it's common to execute it
with some combination of short options, such as:

	$ ./txxx-testname.sh -d -x -i

In cases like this, CLIs usually allow the short options to be bundled
in a single argument, for convenience and agility. Let's add this
feature to test-lib, allowing the above command to be run as:

	$ ./txxx-testname.sh -dxi
	(or any other permutation, e.g. '-ixd')

Note: Short options that require an argument can also be used in a
bundle, in any position. So, for example, '-r 5 -x', '-xr 5' and '-rx 5'
are all valid and equivalent. A special case would be having a bundle
with more than one of such options. To keep things simple, this case is
not allowed for now. This shouldn't be a major limitation, though, as
the only short option that requires an argument today is '-r'. And
concatenating '-r's as in '-rr 5 6' would probably not be very
practical: its unbundled format would be '-r 5 -r 6', for which test-lib
currently considers only the last argument. Therefore, if '-rr 5 6' were
to be allowed, it would have the same effect as just typing '-r 6'.

Note: the test-lib currently doesn't support '-r5', as an alternative
for '-r 5', so the former is not supported in bundles as well.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 9afd61e3ca..080bc59fc4 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ You can also run each test individually from command line, like this:
 
 You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate
 (or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS
-appropriately before running "make".
+appropriately before running "make". Short options can be bundled, i.e.
+'-d -v' is the same as '-dv'.
 
 -v::
 --verbose::