Re: [PATCH v2] t/Makefile: add a rule to re-run previously-failed tests

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Ævar,
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> >
>> >> This might be me missing the point, and I'm really just trying to be
>> >> helpful here and make "prove" work for you because it's awesome, but
>> >> as far as just you running this for development purposes does any of
>> >> this SVN stuff matter? I.e. you can build Git itself not with
>> >> Strawberry, but just use Strawberry to get a working copy of "prove".
>> >
>> > Yes, the SVN stuff matters, because of the many t9*svn* tests (which, BTW
>> > take a substantial time to run). So if I run the test suite, I better do
>> > it with a perl.exe in the PATH that can run the SVN tests. Otherwise I
>> > might just as well not bother with running the entire test suite...
>> 
>> Maybe something like
>> 
>> \path\to\strawberry-perl\perl.exe \path\to\prove ...
>> 
>> without changing the PATH would work. I wouldn't call that convenient
>> though.
>
> Wouldn't Perl-specific environment variables set by Strawberry Perl (such
> as PERL_PATH bleed through to the spawned child processes?
>
> We're dancing around the issue, really. Rather than piling workaround on
> workaround with no end in sight, I think it is time to admit that using
> prove(1) on Windows is just not a good solution for the problem to re-run
> failed tests.