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Correct a misleading comment added by me in62f539043c(test-lib: Allow overriding of TEST_DIRECTORY, 2010-08-19), and add an assertion that TEST_DIRECTORY cannot point to any directory except the "t" directory in the top-level of git.git. This assertion is in effect not new, since we'd already die if that wasn't the case[1], but it and the updated commentary help to make that clearer. The existing comments were also on the wrong arms of the "if". I.e. the "allow tests to override this" was on the "test -z" arm. That came about due to a combination of62f539043cand85176d7251(test-lib.sh: convert $TEST_DIRECTORY to an absolute path, 2013-11-17). Those earlier comments could be read as allowing the "$TEST_DIRECTORY" to be some path outside of t/. As explained in the updated comment that's impossible, rather it was meant for *tests* that ran outside of t/, i.e. the "t0000-basic.sh" tests that use "lib-subtest.sh". Those tests have a different working directory, but they set the "TEST_DIRECTORY" to the same path for bootstrapping. The comments now reflect that, and further comment on why we have a hard dependency on this. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220222.86o82z8als.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
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