help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 9535d2e0a936eb1b7a84686a9b702d3ca9fd680d..483c8d6d7cd9734c04552043b5ff0cb7d1b0af3a 100644 (file)
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -264,7 +264,24 @@ do
                GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT=0
                shift ;;
        -x)
-               trace=t
+               # Some test scripts can't be reliably traced  with '-x',
+               # unless the test is run with a Bash version supporting
+               # BASH_XTRACEFD (introduced in Bash v4.1).  Check whether
+               # this test is marked as such, and ignore '-x' if it
+               # isn't executed with a suitable Bash version.
+               if test -z "$test_untraceable" || {
+                    test -n "$BASH_VERSION" && {
+                      test ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} -gt 4 || {
+                        test ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} -eq 4 &&
+                        test ${BASH_VERSINFO[1]} -ge 1
+                      }
+                    }
+                  }
+               then
+                       trace=t
+               else
+                       echo >&2 "warning: ignoring -x; '$0' is untraceable without BASH_XTRACEFD"
+               fi
                shift ;;
        --verbose-log)
                verbose_log=t
@@ -946,10 +963,10 @@ test -d "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/templates/blt || {
        error "You haven't built things yet, have you?"
 }
 
-if ! test -x "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/t/helper/test-chmtime
+if ! test -x "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/t/helper/test-tool
 then
-       echo >&2 'You need to build test-chmtime:'
-       echo >&2 'Run "make t/helper/test-chmtime" in the source (toplevel) directory'
+       echo >&2 'You need to build test-tool:'
+       echo >&2 'Run "make t/helper/test-tool" in the source (toplevel) directory'
        exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -1189,5 +1206,5 @@ test_lazy_prereq LONG_IS_64BIT '
        test 8 -le "$(build_option sizeof-long)"
 '
 
-test_lazy_prereq TIME_IS_64BIT 'test-date is64bit'
-test_lazy_prereq TIME_T_IS_64BIT 'test-date time_t-is64bit'
+test_lazy_prereq TIME_IS_64BIT 'test-tool date is64bit'
+test_lazy_prereq TIME_T_IS_64BIT 'test-tool date time_t-is64bit'