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authorDiosney Sarmiento <diosney.s@gmail.com>2016-07-04 12:42:20 -0400
committerAnna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>2016-07-10 22:16:37 +0200
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doc: added information on how to run the linter.
Added clarification about the linter execution. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7534 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ $ ./configure && make -j8 test
Make sure the linter is happy and that all tests pass. Please, do not submit
patches that fail either check.
+Running `make test` will run the linter as well unless one or more tests fail.
+If you want to run the linter without running tests, use `make lint`.
+
If you are updating tests and just want to run a single test to check it, you
can use this syntax to run it exactly as the test harness would: