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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'.
@@ -190,7 +197,7 @@ we are testing.
If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not
the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above
pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the
-top-level test script and tries to run all of them. A care is
+top-level test script and tries to run all of them. Care is
especially needed if you are creating a common test library
file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may
not be suitable for standalone execution.
@@ -274,9 +281,8 @@ Do:
- Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage"
below.
- Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics, they're a good way to
- spot if you've missed something. If a new function you added
- doesn't have any coverage you're probably doing something wrong,
+ Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics; if a new function you added
+ doesn't have any coverage, then you're probably doing something wrong,
but having 100% coverage doesn't necessarily mean that you tested
everything.
@@ -328,7 +334,7 @@ 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.:
@@ -420,7 +426,7 @@ library for your script to use.
- test_tick
Make commit and tag names consistent by setting the author and
- committer times to defined stated. Subsequent calls will
+ committer times to defined state. Subsequent calls will
advance the times by a fixed amount.
- test_commit <message> [<filename> [<contents>]]