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Re: how to test changes?

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jan 25, 2007, 04:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20070125045730.GA20345@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<20070125042721.GA6168@cepheus>
Uwe Kleine-K?nig <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> I wonder if there is a simpler way to test changes to git than
> installing it.  My problem is that even if I run 
Look at the INSTALL file:
	GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
	PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
	GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
	export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB

I use this trick all of the time to run git in-place for testing in various weird repositories.

-- 
Shawn.
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