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@@ -471,13 +471,13 @@ Don't: their output. You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar - (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar) + (see https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP-GRAMMAR) but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), it'll complain if anything is amiss. Keep in mind: - - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error + - Inside the <script> part, the standard output and standard error streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they are shown to help debugging the tests. @@ -611,9 +611,11 @@ library for your script to use. - test_have_prereq <prereq> - Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with - test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip - all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite: + Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq. + The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the + implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip + all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some + essential prerequisite: if ! test_have_prereq PERL then @@ -801,9 +803,9 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an unwritable file is expected to fail correctly. - - LIBPCRE + - PCRE - Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests + Git was compiled with support for PCRE. Wrap any tests that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these. - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS @@ -815,6 +817,10 @@ use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd) to precomposed utf-8 (nfc). + - PTHREADS + + Git wasn't compiled with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease. + Tips for Writing Tests ---------------------- |