[PATCH] t/README: document --root option

From

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>

Date

Jun 10, 2010, 18:24 UTC

Message-ID

<c5efa5c15498fe562af98b9b16165127bc1690c2.1276193888.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
---
 t/README |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index dcd3ebb..0470c14 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ appropriately before running "make".
 	implied by other options like --valgrind and
 	GIT_TEST_INSTALLED.
 
+--root=<directory>::
+	Use <directory> as a trash directory to store all temporary
+	data during testing, instead of the t/ directory itself.
+	Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs)
+	can massively speed up the test suite.
+
 You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to
 the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation.
 You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various

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