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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'.
@@ -328,7 +335,7 @@ Keep in mind:
Skipping tests
--------------
-If you need to skip tests you should do so be using the three-arg form
+If you need to skip tests you should do so by using the three-arg form
of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section
below), e.g.: