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Re: [PATCH 4/4] t4300 (rebase): don't unnecessarily set GIT_TRACE

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 13, 2013, 23:05 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>                                                              I've
> never really found the outputs from earlier tests enlightening.

If the test suite would automatically use "set -x" when appropriate so output for each command was preceded by the command being run, that would presumably make the verbose output more useful.

If you are not in a situation where it's difficult to debug interactively, I doubt you'll find anything better than reproducing the bug by hand and exploring. I suppose an option "Run up to this test, stop, and tell me the $TRASH_DIRECTORY and next test so I can try it manually" could be a way to simplify that workflow.

Regards, Jonathan

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Message 21 of 21 in “Trivial cleanups to t3400 (rebase)”
  1. 0/4 Trivial cleanups to t3400 (rebase)Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 10, 2013
  2. 1/4 t3400 (rebase): don't set GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL}Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 10, 2013
  3. Eric SunshineMay 10, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 10, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2013
  6. 2/4 t3400 (rebase): downcase a couple of test titlesRamkumar Ramachandra, May 10, 2013
  7. 3/4 t3400 (rebase): move lone statement into a testRamkumar Ramachandra, May 10, 2013
  8. 4/4 t4300 (rebase): don't unnecessarily set GIT_TRACERamkumar Ramachandra, May 10, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 10, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 10, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2013
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 10, 2013
  15. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 10, 2013
  16. Jonathan NiederMay 10, 2013
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 10, 2013
  18. Jonathan NiederMay 10, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2013
  20. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 11, 2013
  21. Jonathan NiederMay 13, 2013

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