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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: xfstests and ext4
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:07:25 -0800
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 07:28:18AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> No need for that. Keep the xfstests source tree on your
> laptop/workstation and do all your edits there. When you've done
> that, simply rsync the tree to the test VM(s) and run "make; ./check
> ..." from the shell you are running in the test VM.
> 
> That way you can manage the code multiple test VMs run from a single
> source tree, all in one location, and you don't have to worry about
> setting up for mail, backups, losing changes because a test machine
> crash ate your recent changes, accidentally sending changes are
> root, etc...

Or commit them to a local git branch that you can pull from the VMs
instead of the rsync.  The effect is the same, though.