From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:01:08 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: More about testing.
X-Git-Tag: 1.5~13
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e1b5429ca537469c90f916bc3cfef9b2246b55b;p=irker.git

More about testing.
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diff --git a/install.txt b/install.txt
index d4db585..d0c1d33 100644
--- a/install.txt
+++ b/install.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ humans watching irkerd's output, are mere spam).
 See the security.txt document for a detailed discussion of security
 and DoS vulnerabilities related to irker.
 
-== Installing irker ==
+== Installing irkerd ==
 
 irker needs to run constantly, watching for TCP and UDP traffic on
 port 6659.  Install it accordingly.
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ ways to install it. See the irkerhook manual page for details.
 
 == Testing ==
 
-Go to a project repo and call irkerhook.py as indicated above while
-watching the freenode #commits channel.
- 
+To verify that your repo produces well-formed JSON notifications,
+you can run irkerhook.py in the repo directory using the -n switch,
+which emits JSON to standard output rather than attempting to ship
+to an irkerd instance.
+
+Then, start irkerd and call irkerhook.py while watching the freenode
+#commits channel.