By setting the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED variable to the path of an installed Git executable, it is possible to run the test suite also on a specific installed version (as opposed to a version built from scratch). The only thing this needs that is unlikely to be installed is the test helper(s). However, there have been a few rough edges around that, identified in my (still ongoing) work to support building Git in Visual Studio (where we do not want to run GNU Make, and where we have no canonical way to create, say, hard-linked copies of the built-in commands, and other work to let Git for Windows play better with BusyBox. Triggered by a comment of AEvar [https://public-inbox.org/git/20181102223743.4331-1-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/], I hereby contribute these assorted fixes for the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED feature. Johannes Schindelin (5): tests: fix GIT_TEST_INSTALLED's PATH to include t/helper/ tests: respect GIT_TEST_INSTALLED when initializing repositories t/lib-gettext: test installed git-sh-i18n if GIT_TEST_INSTALLED is set tests: do not require Git to be built when testing an installed Git tests: explicitly use `git.exe` on Windows Makefile | 1 + t/lib-gettext.sh | 7 ++++++- t/test-lib-functions.sh | 3 ++- t/test-lib.sh | 15 ++++++++++----- 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) base-commit: 8858448bb49332d353febc078ce4a3abcc962efe Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-73%2Fdscho%2Ftest-git-installed-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-73/dscho/test-git-installed-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/73 -- gitgitgadget
