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authorLibravatar Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>2011-03-15 10:32:11 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-03-20 21:19:38 -0700
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t/README: Add a note about running commands under valgrind
The test suite runs valgrind with certain options activated. Add a note saying how to run commands under the same conditions as the test suite does. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ appropriately before running "make".
not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For
convenience, it also implies --tee.
+ Note that valgrind is run with the option --leak-check=no,
+ as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not
+ interesting. In order to run a single command under the same
+ conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to
+ the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under
+ 't/valgrind/bin/'.
+
--tee::
In addition to printing the test output to the terminal,
write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'.