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 by putting it in the test description. The documentation is updated to reflect the fact that GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER must be set for GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT to be used and GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_SETUP can be used. Based-on-commit-message-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- t/t0303-credential-external.sh | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh index e771075..f028fd1 100755 --- a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh +++ b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh @@ -1,6 +1,34 @@ #!/bin/sh -test_description='external credential helper tests' +test_description='external credential helper tests + +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: + + make GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=foo 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). + +Please note that the individual tests do not verify all of the +preconditions themselves, but rather build on each other. A failing +test means that tests later in the sequence can return false "OK" +results. + +If your helper supports time-based expiration with a configurable +timeout, you can test that feature with: + + make GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=foo \ + GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT="foo --timeout=1" \ + t0303-credential-external.sh + +If your helper requires additional setup before the tests are started, +you can set GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_SETUP to a sequence of shell +commands. +' + . ./test-lib.sh . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-credential.sh -- 1.7.10.rc0.160.g12d89 -- 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