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t/README: Add a note about running commands under valgrind

The test suite runs valgrind with certain options activated. Add a
note saying how to run commands under the same conditions as the test
suite does.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Carlos Martín Nieto 14 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ appropriately before running "make". @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ appropriately before running "make".
not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For
convenience, it also implies --tee.

Note that valgrind is run with the option --leak-check=no,
as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not
interesting. In order to run a single command under the same
conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to
the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under
't/valgrind/bin/'.

--tee::
In addition to printing the test output to the terminal,
write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'.

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