# Repeat until no more failures
$ prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh
+You can give DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove on the make command (or define it
+in config.mak) to cause "make test" to run tests under prove.
+GIT_PROVE_OPTS can be used to pass additional options, e.g.
+
+ $ make DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS='--timer --jobs 16' test
+
You can also run each test individually from command line, like this:
$ sh ./t3010-ls-files-killed-modified.sh
test ...
That way all of the commands in your tests will succeed or fail. If
- you must ignore the return value of something (e.g., the return
- after unsetting a variable that was already unset is unportable) it's
- best to indicate so explicitly with a semicolon:
-
- unset HLAGH;
- git merge hla &&
- git push gh &&
- test ...
+ you must ignore the return value of something, consider using a
+ helper function (e.g. use sane_unset instead of unset, in order
+ to avoid unportable return value for unsetting a variable that was
+ already unset), or prepending the command with test_might_fail or
+ test_must_fail.
- Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage"
below.
<expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more
helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option.
+ - test_line_count (= | -lt | -ge | ...) <length> <file>
+
+ Check whether a file has the length it is expected to.
+
- test_path_is_file <file> [<diagnosis>]
test_path_is_dir <dir> [<diagnosis>]
test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>]