From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:30:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2008, #06; Wed, 20)
Message-ID: <7vy72rkskh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080821011811.GA13915@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I really liked this the first time I ran "make -j4 test". However, it
> now cleans up the trash directory automagically after a successful run.
> This bit me today when I added a test that should have failed but
> accidentally passed. I wanted to look at the output, but it was gone.
>
> Probably it's not worth worrying about, since that is certainly the less
> common case, and I can work around it by editing the passing test script
> to provoke failure.

When I add to an existing test, I usually:

 * guess where I want to start the new test;
 * insert an "exit" there to cause failure;
 * run it and inspect the state of the test directory;
 * write the new test just before the "exit";
 * run it until I like the new test;
 * remove the "exit".