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-rwxr-xr-xt/valgrind/valgrind.sh2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index f5ee40f9c1..9b41fe7a9f 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ appropriately before running "make".
'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind
installation.
+ As a special case, <tool> can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses
+ memcheck but disables --track-origins. Use this if you are
+ running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory
+ issues.
+
Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no,
as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not
interesting. In order to run a single command under the same
diff --git a/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh b/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh
index 472ac2deed..6b87c91b60 100755
--- a/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh
+++ b/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ base=$(basename "$0")
TOOL_OPTIONS='--leak-check=no'
case "$GIT_VALGRIND_MODE" in
+memcheck-fast)
+ ;;
memcheck)
VALGRIND_VERSION=$(valgrind --version)
VALGRIND_MAJOR=$(expr "$VALGRIND_VERSION" : '[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)')