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authorLibravatar Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>2019-07-30 09:56:16 +0800
committerLibravatar Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>2019-07-30 09:56:16 +0800
commiteccd872c765a31cdbd9d7a7be6302bd19e736f9b (patch)
treea9b1fc5a7ebd0386c457a68bb85037ee65d9970f /t/README
parentl10n: de.po: Fix typo in German translation (diff)
parentGit 2.23-rc0 (diff)
downloadtgif-eccd872c765a31cdbd9d7a7be6302bd19e736f9b.tar.xz
Merge tag 'v2.23.0-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
Git 2.23-rc0 * tag 'v2.23.0-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git: (420 commits) Git 2.23-rc0 Merge fixes made on the 'master' front Flush fixes up to the third batch post 2.22.0 The seventh batch git: mark cmd_rebase as requiring a worktree rebase: fix white-space xdiff: clamp function context indices in post-image grep: print the pcre2_jit_on value t6200: use test_commit_bulk travis-ci: build with GCC 4.8 as well The sixth batch clean: show an error message when the path is too long CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules README: fix rendering of text in angle brackets rm: resolving by removal is not a warning-worthy event transport-helper: avoid var decl in for () loop control stash: fix handling removed files with --keep-index mingw: support spawning programs containing spaces in their names gpg-interface: do not scan past the end of buffer tests: defang pager tests by explicitly disabling the log.mailmap warning ...
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@@ -334,11 +334,20 @@ that cannot be easily covered by a few specific test cases. These
could be enabled by running the test suite with correct GIT_TEST_
environment set.
-GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=<non-empty?> turns all strings marked for
-translation into gibberish if non-empty (think "test -n"). Used for
-spotting those tests that need to be marked with a C_LOCALE_OUTPUT
-prerequisite when adding more strings for translation. See "Testing
-marked strings" in po/README for details.
+GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS=<boolean> fails all prerequisites. This is
+useful for discovering issues with the tests where say a later test
+implicitly depends on an optional earlier test.
+
+There's a "FAIL_PREREQS" prerequisite that can be used to test for
+whether this mode is active, and e.g. skip some tests that are hard to
+refactor to deal with it. The "SYMLINKS" prerequisite is currently
+excluded as so much relies on it, but this might change in the future.
+
+GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=<boolean> turns all strings marked for
+translation into gibberish if true. Used for spotting those tests that
+need to be marked with a C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prerequisite when adding more
+strings for translation. See "Testing marked strings" in po/README for
+details.
GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=<boolean> forces split-index mode on the whole
test suite. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config.