On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Adam Spiers <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been pretty impressed with git's test framework, and I'm not > aware of many other (decent) shell-based test frameworks out there. > (One that springs to mind is the one used by rvm, but last time I > looked - admittedly a while ago now - it had limitations). > > Recently a situation arose where I craved the ability to test > something via shell. I did a quick proof of concept and successfully > extracted out the non-git-specific bits of git's test framework to be > used to test something entirely unrelated to git: > > https://github.com/aspiers/shell-env/tree/master/t > > As it turned out to be fairly easy, I was wondering if there would be > any interest in doing this more formally, i.e. splitting off the > framework so that it could be used and improved outside the scope of > git development? Of course this would pose the question how git would > consume this new project without any risk of destabilisation. I'm > guessing that simply using a git submodule would solve the problem, > but ICBW ... > > Just an idea. Interesting, or terrible? :) Done at least once already: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591 -- -Drew Northup -------------------------------------------------------------- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- 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