From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 15:01:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] leak fixes for sparse-checkout code
Message-ID: <xmqqle3qhvpu.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240531114941.GA429026@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 	LSAN_OPTIONS=abort_on_error=0:exitcode=0 \
> 	GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true \
> 	./$script
>   )
>   for i in Indirect Direct; do
> 	echo "$i: $(grep "^$i leak" t/test-results/${script%.sh}.leak/* | wc -l)"
>   done

Neat trick.

> It keeps running instead of aborting on leaks (otherwise your counts
> may go up as "failing" programs are fixed and we run more code). And
> instead just logs it all and counts up the log entries.

Indeed.  It is a very nice idea.

> I wonder if it would be useful to have something like that baked into
> test-lib.
>
> -Peff