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Re: [PATCH 2/2] t0303: resurrect commit message as test documentation

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2012, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20120312204340.GA10661@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<1331553907-19576-3-git-send-email-zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Hi,
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
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> --- a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
> +++ b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
> @@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
>  #!/bin/sh
>  
> +# Test harness for external credential helpers
> +#
> +# This is a tool for authors of external helper tools to sanity-check
> +# their helpers. If you have written the "git-credential-foo" helper,
> +# you check it with:
> +#
> +# GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=foo make t0303-credential-external.sh
> +#
> +# This assumes that your helper is capable of both storing and
> +# retrieving credentials (some helpers may be read-only, and
> +# they will fail these tests).
> +#
> +# If your helper supports time-based expiration with a
> +# configurable timeout, you can test that feature with:
> +#
> +#  GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT="foo --timeout=1" \
> +#      make t0303-credential-external.sh
> +
>  test_description='external credential helper tests'

Nice idea, but shouldn't this description be in test_description so I can view it by running "sh t0303-credential-external.sh --help"?

Thanks, Jonathan

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Message 22 of 23 in “prettify t0303-credential-helpers.sh”
  1. 0/2 prettify t0303-credential-helpers.shZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 12, 2012
  2. 1/2 t0303: set reason for skipping testsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 12, 2012
  3. Jeff KingMar 12, 2012
  4. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 12, 2012
  5. Jeff KingMar 13, 2012
  6. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 14, 2012
  7. 1/2 t0303: immediately bail out w/o GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPERZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 14, 2012
  8. 2/2 t0303: resurrect commit message as test documentationZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 14, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2012
  10. Jeff KingMar 15, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2012
  12. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 15, 2012
  13. 1/2 t0303: immediately bail out w/o GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPERZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 15, 2012
  14. 2/2 t0303: resurrect commit message as test documentationZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 15, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2012
  16. Jeff KingMar 15, 2012
  17. Jeff KingMar 15, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2012
  19. Jeff KingMar 15, 2012
  20. 2/2 t0303: resurrect commit message as test documentationZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Mar 12, 2012
  21. Jeff KingMar 12, 2012
  22. Jonathan NiederMar 12, 2012
  23. Jeff KingMar 13, 2012

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