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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sharness - Test library derived from Git

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 17, 2012, 18:31 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Mathias Lafeldt <mathias.lafeldt@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I've been wanting to announce Sharness [1] on this list for quite some
> time now, but never managed to do so. With the release of version
> 0.2.4, I think it's about time to change that.
>
> Sharness is a shell-based test harness library. It was derived from
> the Git project and is basically a generalized and stripped-down
> version of t/test-lib.sh (I basically removed all things specific to
> Git). So when you know how to write tests for Git, it should be very
> familiar.
Nice, I thought about doing something like this myself but never had the time.

Perhaps to avoid duplication we could move to this and keep Git-specific function in some other file.

Do you think that would be sensible, and would you be willing to submit patches for that?

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