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| author | Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net> | 2009-11-29 23:19:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-11-29 23:09:56 -0800 |
| commit | e160da7f60e67ee548472d907ede3291bbc2a79e (patch) | |
| tree | c2a7e74c3d8ccf6f7d4113f2969997d0ab820418 /t | |
| parent | 5d59a4016bdc068cd49e2a1c43caf4fa59896391 (diff) | |
| download | git-e160da7f60e67ee548472d907ede3291bbc2a79e.tar.gz | |
t/README: Document GIT_TEST_INSTALLED and GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH
These were added without documentation in 2009-03-16 (6720721).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -75,6 +75,19 @@ appropriately before running "make". As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to run the tests with this option in parallel. +You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to +the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. +You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various +test-* support programs, templates, and perl libraries are used. +If your installed git is incomplete, it will silently test parts of +your built version instead. + +When using GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, you can also set GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH to +override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what +GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation). +GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`. + + Skipping Tests -------------- |