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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/sh
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Personally, I think we are better off putting such configuration into a
> file that gets sourced by test-lib.sh, but I don't overly care. I _do_
> find "sh -x tXXXX-name.sh" useful from time to time, but mainly only
> while debugging the test scripts themselves.

I do too.

I think the basic goal should be to come up with a way to make
sure that "cd t/ && make" and "cd t/ && sh -x tXXXX-name.sh"
would get an environment as close as possible to what happens
when you run "make test" at the toplevel.