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t/README: document more test helpers

There is no documentation in t/README for test_must_fail,
test_might_fail, test_cmp, or test_when_finished.

Reported-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jonathan Nieder 15 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -448,6 +448,37 @@ library for your script to use. @@ -448,6 +448,37 @@ library for your script to use.
'Perl API' \
"$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl

- test_must_fail <git-command>

Run a git command and ensure it fails in a controlled way. Use
this instead of "! <git-command>" to fail when git commands
segfault.

- test_might_fail <git-command>

Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this
instead of "<git-command> || :" to catch failures due to segv.

- test_cmp <expected> <actual>

Check whether the content of the <actual> file matches the
<expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more
helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option.

- test_when_finished <script>

Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run to clean up
at the end of the current test. If some clean-up command
fails, the test will not pass.

Example:

test_expect_success 'branch pointing to non-commit' '
git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} >.git/refs/heads/invalid &&
test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/invalid" &&
...
'


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