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authorJakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>2008-06-20 23:10:50 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-06-21 00:02:31 -0700
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t/README: Add 'Skipping Tests' section below 'Running Tests'
Add description of GIT_SKIP_TESTS variable, taken almost verbatim (adjusting for conventions in t/README) from the commit message in 04ece59 (GIT_SKIP_TESTS: allow users to omit tests that are known to break) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -59,6 +59,34 @@ You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate
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
------------