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| author | Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> | 2010-06-10 20:24:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-06-11 13:49:28 -0700 |
| commit | 0d4dbcd35e89a549055e34daf410e4579571b984 (patch) | |
| tree | b7bc0cd6f7d5b07b4bd101e9e8ca526e0c404bf0 /t/README | |
| parent | f4c2eb8b34571e645336484d2b444261a535faea (diff) | |
| download | git-0d4dbcd35e89a549055e34daf410e4579571b984.tar.gz | |
t/README: document --root option
We've had this option since f423ef5 (tests: allow user to specify
trash directory location, 2009-08-09). Make it easier to look up :-)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ appropriately before running "make". implied by other options like --valgrind and GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. +--root=<directory>:: + Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during + testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory. + Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) + can massively speed up the test suite. + 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 |