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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2022-12-19 17:32:43 -0500
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2023-01-05 19:21:57 -0700
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patman: hide the 'test' command unless test data is available
Some tests would fail when the test data is not available, so it doesn't make much sense to expose the action when patman is running outside of the u-boot git checkout. Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@savoirfairelinux.com>
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@@ -680,6 +680,10 @@ them:
$ tools/patman/patman test
+Note that since the test suite depends on data files only available in
+the git checkout, the `test` command is hidden unless `patman` is
+invoked from the U-Boot git repository.
+
Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g.
putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.