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| author | Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> | 2011-01-11 10:44:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-01-11 21:51:25 +0300 |
| commit | 95b104c830caa74a5702bcabc3bbb920b0eba07d (patch) | |
| tree | e9a85db4170664754f4a49c96da483e612587ee6 /t/README | |
| parent | e6ec2b6a23a364de76cd8868d4df20627264eb45 (diff) | |
t/README: hint about using $(pwd) rather than $PWD in tests
This adds just a "do it this way" instruction without a lot of explanation,
because the details are too complex to be explained at this point.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 't/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/README | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ Do: Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics. + - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated, + construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD, + $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on + Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. + For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. + Don't: - exit() within a <script> part. |