Rogan Dawes wrote:
Petr Baudis wrote:
When I joined here, one of the first tasks I had was to "verify if the
existing system-wide Git installation works fine on the local Linux
setup (of unknown qualities)". I couldn't think of anything better than
to run the Git testsuite, but using the system-wide Git instead of
locally compiled one.
This extremely dirty patch achieves this; patch testsuite of Git version
corresponding to the system-wide installation, of course. You will still
need to make the test helpers.
I don't have any real interest on developing this further or tidying it
up, but I have thought that someone might find this useful to just use
or push forward, so here it goes.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <petr.baudis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Perhaps a stupid question, but might it not be easier to add the git
build dir to the front of the PATH, and then remove the explicit paths?
I realise that if the build was unsuccessful, you may end up executing a
different version of git than you expect, though.
Rogan
Or, make a "BUILD_DIR" variable, and replace ../git with ${BUILD_DIR}git
throughout, and make BUILD_DIR == '../' for the normal case, and '' for
the less common case of testing the existing installation.
Or, make ../git a symlink to the installed git binary. This is probably
the simplest, in fact, requiring the least surgery - i.e. none for those
who don't need this functionality.
Rogan
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