On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > +# 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' > > Nice idea, but shouldn't this description be in test_description so I > can view it by running "sh t0303-credential-external.sh --help"? Yes, that makes sense. I didn't even know that "--help" printed out the test description; most of our descriptions are not very useful, so I never bothered. But this is the perfect thing to put in there. -Peff -- 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