test-lib: Allow overriding of TEST_DIRECTORY

avar · gitster · commit 62f539043c71 · 2010-08-31T12:12:01.000-07:00
Tests that test the test-lib.sh itself need to be executed in the
dynamically created trash directory, so we can't assume
$TEST_DIRECTORY is ../ for those.

As a side benefit this change also makes it easy for us to move the
t/*.sh tests into subdirectories if we ever want to do that.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -710,7 +710,13 @@ test_done () {
 
 # Test the binaries we have just built.  The tests are kept in
 # t/ subdirectory and are run in 'trash directory' subdirectory.
-TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
+if test -z "$TEST_DIRECTORY"
+then
+	# We allow tests to override this, in case they want to run tests
+	# outside of t/, e.g. for running tests on the test library
+	# itself.
+	TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
+fi
 GIT_BUILD_DIR="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/..
 
 if test -n "$valgrind"
