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@@ -186,6 +186,22 @@ appropriately before running "make". this feature by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT environment variable to "1" or "0", respectively. +--stress:: +--stress=<N>:: + Run the test script repeatedly in multiple parallel jobs until + one of them fails. Useful for reproducing rare failures in + flaky tests. The number of parallel jobs is, in order of + precedence: <N>, or the value of the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD + environment variable, or twice the number of available + processors (as shown by the 'getconf' utility), or 8. + Implies `--verbose -x --immediate` to get the most information + about the failure. Note that the verbose output of each test + job is saved to 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.stress-<nr>.out', + and only the output of the failed test job is shown on the + terminal. The names of the trash directories get a + '.stress-<nr>' suffix, and the trash directory of the failed + test job is renamed to end with a '.stress-failed' suffix. + You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various @@ -302,6 +318,12 @@ 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_SPLIT_INDEX=<boolean> forces split-index mode on the whole test suite. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config. @@ -339,11 +361,19 @@ for the index version specified. Can be set to any valid version GIT_TEST_PRELOAD_INDEX=<boolean> exercises the preload-index code path by overriding the minimum number of cache entries required per thread. +GIT_TEST_REBASE_USE_BUILTIN=<boolean>, when false, disables the +builtin version of git-rebase. See 'rebase.useBuiltin' in +git-config(1). + GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> enables exercising the multi-threaded loading of the index for the whole test suite by bypassing the default number of cache entries and thread minimums. Setting this to 1 will make the index loading single threaded. +GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=<boolean>, when true, forces the multi-pack- +index to be written after every 'git repack' command, and overrides the +'core.multiPackIndex' setting to true. + Naming Tests ------------ @@ -411,7 +441,8 @@ This test harness library does the following things: - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by - the --root option documented above. + the --root option documented above, and a '.stress-<N>' suffix + appended by the --stress option. - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave |