From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/README: document --root option
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:30:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100612013019.GA27604@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqzxgusl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> +--root=<directory>::
> >> + Use <directory> as a trash directory to store all temporary
> >> + data during testing, instead of the t/ directory itself.
> >> + Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs)
> >> + can massively speed up the test suite.
> >
> > Minor nit: <directory> is not the trash directory, but rather the root
> > of all trash directories. I think anybody with half a clue will
> > understand what it means, though.
>
> Then...
>
> Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during
> testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory.
Yeah, that is much better, IMHO.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-12 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 18:24 [PATCH] t/README: document --root option Thomas Rast
2010-06-10 21:48 ` Jeff King
2010-06-11 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-12 1:30 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-06-12 7:58 ` Thomas Rast
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