implied by other options like --valgrind and
GIT_TEST_INSTALLED.
+--no-bin-wrappers::
+ By default, the test suite uses the wrappers in
+ `../bin-wrappers/` to execute `git` and friends. With this option,
+ `../git` and friends are run directly. This is not recommended
+ in general, as the wrappers contain safeguards to ensure that no
+ files from an installed Git are used, but can speed up test runs
+ especially on platforms where running shell scripts is expensive
+ (most notably, Windows).
+
--root=<directory>::
Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during
testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory.
variable to "1" or "0", respectively.
--stress::
---stress=<N>::
Run the test script repeatedly in multiple parallel jobs until
one of them fails. Useful for reproducing rare failures in
flaky tests. The number of parallel jobs is, in order of
- precedence: <N>, or the value of the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD
+ precedence: the value of the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD
environment variable, or twice the number of available
processors (as shown by the 'getconf' utility), or 8.
Implies `--verbose -x --immediate` to get the most information
'.stress-<nr>' suffix, and the trash directory of the failed
test job is renamed to end with a '.stress-failed' suffix.
+--stress-jobs=<N>::
+ Override the number of parallel jobs. Implies `--stress`.
+
+--stress-limit=<N>::
+ When combined with --stress run the test script repeatedly
+ this many times in each of the parallel jobs or until one of
+ them fails, whichever comes first. Implies `--stress`.
+
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
test_oid_init or test_oid_cache. Providing an unknown key is an
error.
+ - yes [<string>]
+
+ This is often seen in modern UNIX but some platforms lack it, so
+ the test harness overrides the platform implementation with a
+ more limited one. Use this only when feeding a handful lines of
+ output to the downstream---unlike the real version, it generates
+ only up to 99 lines.
+
+
Prerequisites
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