| commit | be5d88e11280eeeeae5c35711f4a8053b9f862ba | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | Fri Oct 04 08:09:33 2019 -0700 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Sun Oct 06 09:07:44 2019 +0900 |
| tree | 2fe0815c4c96e8d7d48c825cdc9e9bd585c67f18 | |
| parent | 5d65ad17a979420fb02328540ec02a3b304aeeec [diff] |
test-tool run-command: learn to run (parts of) the testsuite Git for Windows jumps through hoops to provide a development environment that allows to build Git and to run its test suite. To that end, an entire MSYS2 system, including GNU make and GCC is offered as "the Git for Windows SDK". It does come at a price: an initial download of said SDK weighs in with several hundreds of megabytes, and the unpacked SDK occupies ~2GB of disk space. A much more native development environment on Windows is Visual Studio. To help contributors use that environment, we already have a Makefile target `vcxproj` that generates a commit with project files (and other generated files), and Git for Windows' `vs/master` branch is continuously re-generated using that target. The idea is to allow building Git in Visual Studio, and to run individual tests using a Portable Git. The one missing thing is a way to run the entire test suite: neither `make` nor `prove` are required to run Git, therefore Git for Windows does not support those commands in the Portable Git. To help with that, add a simple test helper that exercises the `run_processes_parallel()` function to allow for running test scripts in parallel (which is really necessary, especially on Windows, as Git's test suite takes such a long time to run). This will also come in handy for the upcoming change to our Azure Pipeline: we will use this helper in a Portable Git to test the Visual Studio build of Git. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command. If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt (man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just “subscribe git” in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the “What's cooking” reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name “git” was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as “the stupid content tracker” and the name as (depending on your mood):