The "-x" test-script option turns on the shell's "-x" tracing, which can help show why a particular test is failing. Unfortunately, this can create false negatives in some tests if they invoke a shell function with its stderr redirected. t5512.10 is such a test, as it does: test_must_fail git ls-remote refs*master >actual 2>&1 && test_cmp exp actual The "actual" file gets the "-x" trace for the test_must_fail function, which prevents it from matching the expected output. There's no way to avoid this without managing the trace flag inside each sub-function, which isn't really a workable solution. But unless you specifically care about t5512.10, we can work around it by enabling tracing only for the specific tests we want. You can already do: ./t5512-ls-remote.sh -x --verbose-only=16 to see the trace only for a specific test. But that doesn't _disable_ the tracing in the other tests; it just sends it to /dev/null. However, there's no point in generating a trace that the user won't see, so we can simply disable tracing whenever it doesn't have a matching verbose flag. The normal case of just "./t5512-ls-remote.sh -x" stays the same, as "-x" already implies "--verbose" (and "--verbose-only" overrides "--verbose", which is why this works at all). And for our test, we need only check $verbose, as maybe_setup_verbose will have already set that flag based on the $verbose_only list). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- t/test-lib.sh | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 374bfcb..16c4d7b 100644 --- a/t/test-lib.sh +++ b/t/test-lib.sh @@ -531,6 +531,10 @@ maybe_setup_valgrind () { fi } +want_trace () { + test "$trace" = t && test "$verbose" = t +} + # This is a separate function because some tests use # "return" to end a test_expect_success block early # (and we want to make sure we run any cleanup like @@ -538,7 +542,7 @@ maybe_setup_valgrind () { test_eval_inner_ () { # Do not add anything extra (including LF) after '$*' eval " - test \"$trace\" = t && set -x + want_trace && set -x $*" } @@ -554,7 +558,7 @@ test_eval_ () { { test_eval_inner_ "$@" </dev/null >&3 2>&4 test_eval_ret_=$? - if test "$trace" = t + if want_trace then set +x if test "$test_eval_ret_" != 0 -- 2.5.0.148.g63828c1 -- 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