From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:55:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/sh
Message-ID: <7vir0fz3ip.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080223224938.GA14231@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Personally, I think we are better off putting such configuration into a
> file that gets sourced by test-lib.sh, but I don't overly care. I _do_
> find "sh -x tXXXX-name.sh" useful from time to time, but mainly only
> while debugging the test scripts themselves.

I do too.

I think the basic goal should be to come up with a way to make
sure that "cd t/ && make" and "cd t/ && sh -x tXXXX-name.sh"
would get an environment as close as possible to what happens
when you run "make test" at the toplevel.