diff options
Diffstat (limited to 't/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/README | 34 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -54,6 +54,38 @@ You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first failed test. +--long-tests:: + This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where + available), for more exhaustive testing. + + +Skipping Tests +-------------- + +In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding +due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or +filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes +as pathnames. + +You should be able to say something like + + $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh + +and even: + + $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make + +to omit such tests. The value of the environment variable is a +SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip, +and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole +test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which +particular test to skip. + +Note that some tests in the existing test suite rely on previous +test item, so you cannot arbitrarily disable one and expect the +remainder of test to check what the test originally was intended +to check. + Naming Tests ------------ @@ -123,7 +155,7 @@ This test harness library does the following things: (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits. - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects - database and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash' + database and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash directory' if you must know, but I do not think you care. - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to |