Hi Junio, Le 2024-03-24 à 12:10, Junio C Hamano a écrit : > "Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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. > > While I agree with the patch that this is a useful "feature" of > t/Makefile, I've always felt it was ugly to use a file itself that > we do not consider a build product, rather a source, as the target > to trigger some action. Are we comfortable casting this behaviour > in stone by documenting it here? Since '$(T)' is listed at the bottom of the Makefile as .PHONY, I think it is OK and not that ugly since this uses a documented feature of make. Cheers, Philippe.
