As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to
run the tests with this option in parallel.
+--with-dashes::
+ By default tests are run without dashed forms of
+ commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses
+ wrappers from ../bin-wrappers). Use this option to include
+ the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all
+ the dashed forms of commands. This option is currently
+ implied by other options like --valgrind and
+ GIT_TEST_INSTALLED.
+
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
verbose=t; shift ;;
-q|--q|--qu|--qui|--quie|--quiet)
quiet=t; shift ;;
+ --with-dashes)
+ with_dashes=t; shift ;;
--no-color)
color=; shift ;;
--no-python)
# Test the binaries we have just built. The tests are kept in
# t/ subdirectory and are run in 'trash directory' subdirectory.
TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
-if test -z "$valgrind"
+if test -n "$valgrind"
then
- if test -z "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED"
- then
- PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
- GIT_EXEC_PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..
- else
- GIT_EXEC_PATH=$($GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path) ||
- error "Cannot run git from $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED."
- PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
- GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH:-$GIT_EXEC_PATH}
- fi
-else
make_symlink () {
test -h "$2" &&
test "$1" = "$(readlink "$2")" || {
PATH=$GIT_VALGRIND/bin:$PATH
GIT_EXEC_PATH=$GIT_VALGRIND/bin
export GIT_VALGRIND
+elif test -n "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" ; then
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH=$($GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path) ||
+ error "Cannot run git from $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED."
+ PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH:-$GIT_EXEC_PATH}
+else # normal case, use ../bin-wrappers only unless $with_dashes:
+ git_bin_dir="$TEST_DIRECTORY/../bin-wrappers"
+ if ! test -x "$git_bin_dir/git" ; then
+ if test -z "$with_dashes" ; then
+ say "$git_bin_dir/git is not executable; using GIT_EXEC_PATH"
+ fi
+ with_dashes=t
+ fi
+ PATH="$git_bin_dir:$PATH"
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..
+ if test -n "$with_dashes" ; then
+ PATH="$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH"
+ fi
fi
GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=$(pwd)/../templates/blt
unset GIT_CONFIG