Re: [PATCH] maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> 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

The name after TESTS= should be the name of the file relative to
the tests/ directory:

     make check -C tests TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes

Thanks!