On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 07:25:21PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> Yeah, you are right. > >> It looks like we have GIT_TEST_OPTS to pass options like --debug, > >> --valgrind, --verbose, but we don't have an environment variable to > >> set config options. > > > > Or maybe GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS works for this purpose? > > It has to be set inside test-lib.sh, not from outside because > environment variables from outside are filtered if I remember > correctly and only a few specials plus those GIT_TEST_ can survive. > Some tests override GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS themselves to pass config > vars to certain command (I know because I just did a couple days ago > ;).which loses core.splitIndex. It does seem reasonable to have a GIT_TEST_REPO_CONFIG that sets some variables by default in the trash repository created by test_create_repo. That doesn't quite catch everything, because a few tests make their own sub-repos. But those cases are usually testing something very specific anyway. -Peff