I tried running make in contrib/remote-helpers and it died with:
:: make
make -e -C ../../t test
rm -f -r test-results
duplicate test numbers: /Users/jszakmeister/sources/git
make[1]: *** [test-lint-duplicates] Error 1
make: *** [test] Error 2
The path shown is not quite correct. I have the sources extracted to
/Users/jszakmeister/sources/git-1.8.1.1. It appears that the Makefile
in contrib/remote-helpers is exporting T, which is causing the
duplicate test detection to fail.
Thought you'd like to know!
-John