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Ben Knoble" , phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, Usman Akinyemi , git@vger.kernel.org, chriscool@tuxfamily.org, christian.couder@gmail.com, me@ttaylorr.com, ps@pks.im Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] t/t1517: automate `git subcmd -h` tests outside a repository In-Reply-To: <0548f4b2-6c36-4958-8725-5c9ac91e31e8@crinan.ddns.net> (Phillip Wood's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:05:58 +0100") References: <20250721115519.140361-1-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> <20250721115519.140361-2-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> <370f11e1-b335-4111-912c-94429c5018d6@gmail.com> <0548f4b2-6c36-4958-8725-5c9ac91e31e8@crinan.ddns.net> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:31:13 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Phillip Wood writes: >> That should only happen if you set GIT_TEST_INSTALLED or something, >> right? Or maybe some even more exotic setup: even with my >> distro-installed Git, the command doesn't list my git-* scripts in >> $PATH or installed extensions (like git-when-merged). > > Sorry for the confusion, I've just had another look and it turns out I > had some rubbish laying around in the root of my repository which was > causing the problem. I do not think this is something you should feel sorry about. If you checked out and built 'seen' that invents new commands, and then checked out 'next' that lacks these new commands without first running "make clean" (relying on the mtime of the source will cause rebuilding of necessary things), your build on 'next' will see "some rubbish laying around" that may cause the same issue, no? As "test" is primarily to help developers, I think we should find a way for this test not to be confused by "some rubbish laying around" if possible. Thanks.