diff --git a/t/.gitignore b/t/.gitignore
index b27e280083..7dcbb232cd 100644
--- a/t/.gitignore
+++ b/t/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-/trash directory
+/trash directory*
 /test-results
diff --git a/t/Makefile b/t/Makefile
index 0d65cedaa6..ed49c20b16 100644
--- a/t/Makefile
+++ b/t/Makefile
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH))
 T = $(wildcard t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.sh)
 TSVN = $(wildcard t91[0-9][0-9]-*.sh)
 
-all: pre-clean $(T) aggregate-results clean
+all: pre-clean
+	$(MAKE) aggregate-results-and-cleanup
 
 $(T):
 	@echo "*** $@ ***"; GIT_CONFIG=.git/config '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' $@ $(GIT_TEST_OPTS)
@@ -25,6 +26,10 @@ pre-clean:
 clean:
 	$(RM) -r 'trash directory' test-results
 
+aggregate-results-and-cleanup: $(T)
+	$(MAKE) aggregate-results
+	$(MAKE) clean
+
 aggregate-results:
 	'$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./aggregate-results.sh test-results/t*-*
 
@@ -34,4 +39,3 @@ full-svn-test:
 	$(MAKE) $(TSVN) GIT_SVN_NO_OPTIMIZE_COMMITS=0 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 
 .PHONY: pre-clean $(T) aggregate-results clean
-.NOTPARALLEL:
diff --git a/t/t9700/test.pl b/t/t9700/test.pl
index 4d2312548a..851cea4a4b 100755
--- a/t/t9700/test.pl
+++ b/t/t9700/test.pl
@@ -14,10 +14,7 @@
 BEGIN { use_ok('Git') }
 
 # set up
-our $repo_dir = "trash directory";
 our $abs_repo_dir = Cwd->cwd;
-die "this must be run by calling the t/t97* shell script(s)\n"
-    if basename(Cwd->cwd) ne $repo_dir;
 ok(our $r = Git->repository(Directory => "."), "open repository");
 
 # config
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 11c027571b..7f60b614ea 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -449,6 +449,11 @@ test_done () {
 		# we will leave things as they are.
 
 		say_color pass "passed all $msg"
+
+		test -d "$remove_trash" &&
+		cd "$(dirname "$remove_trash")" &&
+		rm -rf "$(basename "$remove_trash")"
+
 		exit 0 ;;
 
 	*)
@@ -485,7 +490,8 @@ fi
 . ../GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
 
 # Test repository
-test="trash directory"
+test="trash directory.$(basename "$0" .sh)"
+remove_trash="$TEST_DIRECTORY/$test"
 rm -fr "$test" || {
 	trap - exit
 	echo >&5 "FATAL: Cannot prepare test area"