From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:10:01 GMT
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] t/README: Document test_external*
Message-ID: <1277997004-29504-6-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1277997004-29504-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

There was do documentation for the test_external_without_stderr and
test_external functions.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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 t/README |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 67f8f30..43d6d4d 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -329,6 +329,33 @@ library for your script to use.
 	    skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available'
 	    test_done
 	fi
+    
+ - test_external [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script>
+ 
+   Execute a <script> with an <external> interpreter (like perl). This
+   was added for tests like t9700-perl-git.sh which do most of their
+   work in an external test script.
+   
+	test_external_without_stderr \
+	    'Perl API' \
+	    "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl
+
+   If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the
+   test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first
+   test_external* function. See t9700-perl-git.sh for an example.
+
+	# The external test will outputs its own plan
+	test_external_has_tap=1
+    
+ - test_external_without_stderr [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script>
+ 
+   Like test_external but fail if there's any output on stderr,
+   instead of checking the exit code.
+ 
+	test_external_without_stderr \
+	    'Perl API' \
+	    "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl
+
 
 Tips for Writing Tests
 ----------------------
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