Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2008, #06; Wed, 20)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I really liked this the first time I ran "make -j4 test". However, it
> now cleans up the trash directory automagically after a successful run.
> This bit me today when I added a test that should have failed but
> accidentally passed. I wanted to look at the output, but it was gone.
>
> Probably it's not worth worrying about, since that is certainly the less
> common case, and I can work around it by editing the passing test script
> to provoke failure.

When I add to an existing test, I usually:

 * guess where I want to start the new test;
 * insert an "exit" there to cause failure;
 * run it and inspect the state of the test directory;
 * write the new test just before the "exit";
 * run it until I like the new test;
 * remove the "exit".