Re: [PATCH] pull: abort by default if fast-forwarding is impossible

> > Personally I prefer to run prove instead, because the output is less
> > verbose, and there's a nice summary at the end:
> >
> >   prove t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.sh
> 
> I also like "prove" better (well, I added the support for it, so
> ...). It's generally better to use e.g.:
> 
>     make test DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS="--jobs $(nproc)"

> Since we do some basic checking via the Makefile that effectively form a
> part of our tests.
> 
> FWIW for your one-liner it can be just:
> 
>     prove t[0-9]*.sh
> 
> Alex: You might also find that if you specify --root as the path to a
> ramdisk the tests are much faster, e.g. on my Linux boxes I set
> --root=/run/user/`id -u`/git.