From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx>
Since 23fc63bf8f (make tests ignorable with "make -i", 2005-11-08), each
test file defines a target in the test Makefile, such that one can
invoke:
make *checkout*
to run all tests with 'checkout' in their filename. This is useful to
run a subset of tests when you have a good idea of what part of the code
is touched by the changes your are testing.
Document that in t/README to help new (or more seasoned) contributors
that might not be aware.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx>
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t/README: mention test files are make targets
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1701%2Fphil-blain%2Ftests-makefile-targets-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1701/phil-blain/tests-makefile-targets-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1701
t/README | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 621d3b8c095..71211109338 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ the tests.
ok 2 - plain with GIT_WORK_TREE
ok 3 - plain bare
+t/Makefile defines a target for each test file, such that you can also use
+shell pattern matching to run a subset of the tests:
+
+ make *checkout*
+
+will run all tests with 'checkout' in their filename.
+
Since the tests all output TAP (see https://testanything.org) they can
be run with any TAP harness. Here's an example of parallel testing
powered by a recent version of prove(1):
base-commit: 3e0d3cd5c7def4808247caf168e17f2bbf47892b
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