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[PATCH] maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
[PATCH] maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:15:13 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
I was wondering how to do this so I'm adding this info.
cheers,
Pádraig.
>From 47b11fea893e3d11771abbe53144052d4bb87d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:51:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs
* HACKING: Give an example of how to run a test in isolation.
* README-hacking: Reference the HACKING file.
---
HACKING | 4 +++-
README-hacking | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 6eb0480..c8e85f8 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a
test suite
addition that exercises it. If you fix a bug, add at least one test that
fails without the patch, but that succeeds once your patch is applied.
If you add a feature, add tests to exercise as much of the new code
-as possible.
+as possible. Note to run tests/misc/newtest in isolation you can do:
+
+ make check -C tests TESTS=newtest VERBOSE=yes
There are hundreds of tests in the tests/ directories. You can use
tests/sample-test as a template, or one of the various Perl-based ones
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 8333cd0..7a8b4c4 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
+See also HACKING for more detailed coreutils contribution guidlines.
* Requirements
--
1.5.3.6
- [PATCH] maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs,
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