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t/README: hint about using $(pwd) rather than $PWD in tests

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This adds just a "do it this way" instruction without a lot of explanation,
because the details are too complex to be explained at this point.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Sixt 2011-01-11 08:44:30 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ Do:
Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better
than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics.
- When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated,
construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD,
$TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on
Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names.
For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9.
Don't:
- exit() within a <script> part.