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@@ -265,12 +265,12 @@ or:
$ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='-3 21'
-As noted above, the test set is built going though items left to
-right, so this:
+As noted above, the test set is built by going through the items
+from left to right, so this:
$ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='1-4 !3'
-will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that comes later have higher
+will run tests 1, 2, and 4. Items that come later have higher
precedence. It means that this:
$ sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh --run='!3 1-4'
@@ -471,13 +471,13 @@ Don't:
their output.
You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar
- (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar)
+ (see https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP-GRAMMAR)
but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1),
it'll complain if anything is amiss.
Keep in mind:
- - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error
+ - Inside the <script> part, the standard output and standard error
streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or
"not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they
are shown to help debugging the tests.
@@ -611,9 +611,11 @@ library for your script to use.
- test_have_prereq <prereq>
- Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with
- test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip
- all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite:
+ Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq.
+ The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the
+ implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip
+ all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some
+ essential prerequisite:
if ! test_have_prereq PERL
then
@@ -801,9 +803,9 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own.
Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an
unwritable file is expected to fail correctly.
- - LIBPCRE
+ - PCRE
- Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests
+ Git was compiled with support for PCRE. Wrap any tests
that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these.
- CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS
@@ -815,6 +817,10 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own.
Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd)
to precomposed utf-8 (nfc).
+ - PTHREADS
+
+ Git wasn't compiled with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease.
+
Tips for Writing Tests
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