The test suite runs valgrind with certain options activated. Add a note saying how to run commands under the same conditions as the test suite does. Signed-off-by: Carlos MartÃn Nieto <cmn@xxxxxxxx> --- As Jeff pointed out, the test suite does use --leak-check=no. I was using valgrind manually as I was chasing a different error that does show up. How about adding this to the README? t/README | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/README b/t/README index 78c9e65..2a73fc3 100644 --- a/t/README +++ b/t/README @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ appropriately before running "make". not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For convenience, it also implies --tee. + *NOTE*: As the git process is short-lived and some errors are + not interesting, valgrind is run with (among others) the + option --leak-check=no. In order to run a single command under + the same conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to + point to the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands + under 't/valgrind/bin/'. + --tee:: In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html