The commit message which added those tests (861444f 't: add test harness for external credential helpers' 2011-12-10) provided nice documentation in the commit message. Let's make it more visible. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/t0303-credential-external.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh index f1e0e75..4ab9a54 100755 --- a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh +++ b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh @@ -1,5 +1,23 @@ #!/bin/sh +# Test harness for external credential helpers +# +# This is a tool for authors of external helper tools to sanity-check +# their helpers. If you have written the "git-credential-foo" helper, +# you check it with: +# +# GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=foo make t0303-credential-external.sh +# +# This assumes that your helper is capable of both storing and +# retrieving credentials (some helpers may be read-only, and +# they will fail these tests). +# +# If your helper supports time-based expiration with a +# configurable timeout, you can test that feature with: +# +# GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT="foo --timeout=1" \ +# make t0303-credential-external.sh + test_description='external credential helper tests' . ./test-lib.sh . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-credential.sh -- 1.7.9.3.467.g8f1c7 -- 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