Re: [PATCH 1/8] t/README: Tests are all +x, ./test, not sh ./test

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 1, 2010, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20100701154211.GA15542@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1277997004-29504-2-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:09:57PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> They all run with a #!/bin/sh shebang, but it's probably better to use
> the ./ form anyway.

If we want to be nitpicky, they are actually run by "make test" with $SHELL_PATH. We don't re-write the shebang lines in the test scripts (as we do with the actual git-* scripts), so running "./t-whatever" won't work if you have a broken shell (e.g., Solaris). You have to do "bash ./t-whatever".

-Peff