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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/cvs/TESTS')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/cvs/TESTS | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/cvs/TESTS b/contrib/cvs/TESTS index fe01101eca20..dada9e37abdd 100644 --- a/contrib/cvs/TESTS +++ b/contrib/cvs/TESTS @@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ miss, but here are a few important ones. I'm leaving off long explanations after the first few since it probably gives you the idea and the data is in sanity.sh. +Note that the boolean variables contain shell commands which return true or +false when executed and are intended to be used like, +"if $remote; then ... ; else ... ; fi" + * $testdir = the directory this test is taking place in (CVSROOT=$testdir/cvsroot or CVSROOT=:fork:$testdir/cvsroot) @@ -216,8 +220,11 @@ sanity.sh. * $username = regexp to match a username * $hostname = regexp to match a hostname * $PROG = regexp to match progname in CVS error messages - * $remote = 'yes' or 'no', depending on whether the script is running with - a remote CVSROOT + * $remote = ':' (true) or 'false', depending on whether the script is + running with a remote CVSROOT + * $keep = ':' (true) or 'false'. When set, the first test run will + leave any files and directories it created in $testdir and + exit when complete. And, of course, some characters like '.' in regexps need to be '\' escaped when you mean them literally. Some characters may be interpreted by the shell, |