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@@ -340,7 +340,11 @@ Don't:
- use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our
friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before
the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that
- does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH.
+ does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. Note that we
+ provide a "perl" function which uses $PERL_PATH under the hood, so
+ you do not need to worry when simply running perl in the test scripts
+ (but you do, for example, on a shebang line or in a sub script
+ created via "write_script").
- use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script can
be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris).
@@ -387,7 +391,7 @@ of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section
below), e.g.:
test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' '
- "$PERL_PATH" -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()"
+ perl -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()"
'
The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't
@@ -520,7 +524,7 @@ library for your script to use.
test_external \
'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \
- "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl
+ perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl
If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the
test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first
@@ -536,7 +540,7 @@ library for your script to use.
test_external_without_stderr \
'Perl API' \
- "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl
+ perl "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl
- test_expect_code <exit-code> <command>