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* passed all 3 test(s)
You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate
-(or -i) command line argument to the test.
+(or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS
+appropriately before running "make".
--verbose::
This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the
@@ -58,6 +59,21 @@ You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate
This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where
available), for more exhaustive testing.
+--valgrind::
+ Execute all Git binaries with valgrind and exit with status
+ 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will only stop
+ the test script when running under -i). Valgrind errors
+ go to stderr, so you might want to pass the -v option, too.
+
+ Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and
+ not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For
+ convenience, it also implies --tee.
+
+--tee::
+ In addition to printing the test output to the terminal,
+ write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'.
+ As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to
+ run the tests with this option in parallel.
Skipping Tests
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