From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxx>
---
t/README | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 90718b4..f98ebb3 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -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.
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1.7.4.rc1.1258.g84aa
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