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@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ appropriately before running "make".
command being run and their output if any are also
output.
+--verbose-only=<pattern>::
+ Like --verbose, but the effect is limited to tests with
+ numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is
+ simply the running count of the test within the file.
+
--debug::
This may help the person who is developing a new test.
It causes the command defined with test_debug to run.
@@ -121,6 +126,11 @@ appropriately before running "make".
the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under
't/valgrind/bin/'.
+--valgrind-only=<pattern>::
+ Like --valgrind, but the effect is limited to tests with
+ numbers matching <pattern>. The number matched against is
+ simply the running count of the test within the file.
+
--tee::
In addition to printing the test output to the terminal,
write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'.
@@ -324,6 +334,9 @@ Don't:
use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git
dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault).
+ On the other hand, don't use test_must_fail for running regular
+ platform commands; just use '! cmd'.
+
- use perl without spelling it as "$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
@@ -592,6 +605,20 @@ library for your script to use.
test_cmp expected actual
'
+ - test_ln_s_add <path1> <path2>
+
+ This function helps systems whose filesystem does not support symbolic
+ links. Use it to add a symbolic link entry to the index when it is not
+ important that the file system entry is a symbolic link, i.e., instead
+ of the sequence
+
+ ln -s foo bar &&
+ git add bar
+
+ Sometimes it is possible to split a test in a part that does not need
+ the symbolic link in the file system and a part that does; then only
+ the latter part need be protected by a SYMLINKS prerequisite (see below).
+
Prerequisites
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