Merge branch 'jk/maint-pull-dry-run-noop' into maint

[git.git] / t / README

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 4e1d7dd1833f43404a00b41d55800b9fe27d1807..0e4e8d8862c96383a6f6f22a1b6bb01044925620 100644 (file)
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ appropriately before running "make".
        As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to
        run the tests with this option in parallel.
 
+--with-dashes::
+       By default tests are run without dashed forms of
+       commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses
+       wrappers from ../bin-wrappers).  Use this option to include
+       the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all
+       the dashed forms of commands.  This option is currently
+       implied by other options like --valgrind and
+       GIT_TEST_INSTALLED.
+
+--root=<directory>::
+       Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during
+       testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory.
+       Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs)
+       can massively speed up the test suite.
+
 You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to
 the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation.
 You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various