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There was no documentation for the test_set_prereq and
test_have_prereq functions, or the three-arg form of
test_expect_success and test_expect_failure.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness
library for your script to use.

- test_expect_success <message> <script>
- test_expect_success [<prereq>] <message> <script>

This takes two strings as parameter, and evaluates the
Usually takes two strings as parameter, and evaluates the
<script>. If it yields success, test is considered
successful. <message> should state what it is testing.

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'git-write-tree should be able to write an empty tree.' \
'tree=$(git-write-tree)'

- test_expect_failure <message> <script>
If you supply three parameters the first will be taken to be a
prerequisite, see the test_set_prereq and test_have_prereq
documentation below:

test_expect_success TTY 'git --paginate rev-list uses a pager' \
' ... '

- test_expect_failure [<prereq>] <message> <script>

This is NOT the opposite of test_expect_success, but is used
to mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage. Unlike
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success and "still broken" on failure. Failures from these
tests won't cause -i (immediate) to stop.

Like test_expect_success this function can optionally use a three
argument invocation with a prerequisite as the first argument.

- test_debug <script>

This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only
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Merges the given rev using the given message. Like test_commit,
creates a tag and calls test_tick before committing.

- test_set_prereq SOME_PREREQ

Set a test prerequisite to be used later with test_have_prereq. The
test-lib will set some prerequisites for you, e.g. PERL and PYTHON
which are derived from ./GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS (grep test_set_prereq
test-lib.sh for more). Others you can set yourself and use later
with either test_have_prereq directly, or the three argument
invocation of test_expect_success and test_expect_failure.

- test_have_prereq SOME PREREQ

Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with
test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip
all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite:

if ! test_have_prereq PERL
then
skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available'
test_done
fi

Tips for Writing Tests
----------------------

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