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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-11-04 14:58:01 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-11-04 14:58:02 -0800 |
| commit | a3a9cff0371f5dd3dd199ef227911cd812e1708d (patch) | |
| tree | 80bb14edae19fa4e93a854f64ebeaf6ae8392568 /t/README | |
| parent | Merge branch 'sc/doc-howto-dumb-http' (diff) | |
| parent | t: use perl instead of "$PERL_PATH" where applicable (diff) | |
| download | tgif-a3a9cff0371f5dd3dd199ef227911cd812e1708d.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/wrap-perl-used-in-tests'
* jk/wrap-perl-used-in-tests:
t: use perl instead of "$PERL_PATH" where applicable
t: provide a perl() function which uses $PERL_PATH
Diffstat (limited to 't/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -340,7 +340,11 @@ Don't: - use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that - does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. + does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. Note that we + provide a "perl" function which uses $PERL_PATH under the hood, so + you do not need to worry when simply running perl in the test scripts + (but you do, for example, on a shebang line or in a sub script + created via "write_script"). - use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script can be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). @@ -387,7 +391,7 @@ of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section below), e.g.: test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' ' - "$PERL_PATH" -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" + perl -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" ' The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't @@ -520,7 +524,7 @@ library for your script to use. test_external \ 'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \ - "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl + perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first @@ -536,7 +540,7 @@ library for your script to use. test_external_without_stderr \ 'Perl API' \ - "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl + perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command> |