[PATCH 8/8] t/README: Document the dangers of printing "ok" / "not ok"
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:03
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
A TAP harness will get confused if you print "ok" or "not ok" at the beginning of a line. This had to be fixed in 335f87871fe5aa6b3fd55b2b4e80f16fe9681483 when TAP support was introduced. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted> --- t/README | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 42a4c25..29f795e 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ prove and other harnesses come with a lot of useful options. The # Repeat until no more failures $ prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh +The TAP support is completely incidental. A TAP harness is just a +program that interprets the "ok"/"not ok" (and some other strings) in +a special way. The only limitation this imposes is that you shouldn't +echo "ok" or "not ok" by yourself at the beginning of a line, that'll +confuse the TAP harness. + You can also run each test individually from command line, like this: $ ./t3010-ls-files-killed-modified.sh
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