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Re: [PATCH 2/2] t0303: resurrect commit message as test documentation

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:53:17

Hi,

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
+++ b/t/t0303-credential-external.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+# Test harness for external credential helpers
+#
+# This is a tool for authors of external helper tools to sanity-check
+# their helpers. If you have written the "git-credential-foo" helper,
+# you check it with:
+#
+# GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=foo make t0303-credential-external.sh
+#
+# This assumes that your helper is capable of both storing and
+# retrieving credentials (some helpers may be read-only, and
+# they will fail these tests).
+#
+# If your helper supports time-based expiration with a
+# configurable timeout, you can test that feature with:
+#
+#  GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT="foo --timeout=1" \
+#      make t0303-credential-external.sh
+
 test_description='external credential helper tests'
Nice idea, but shouldn't this description be in test_description so I
can view it by running "sh t0303-credential-external.sh --help"?

Thanks,
Jonathan
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