Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / t / README

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 165e7cf34da32663a18f4c6a87dbe3087dac8263..ccf6a53377804153f7a516031d5bab4ef6da4016 100644 (file)
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ appropriately before running "make".
        not see any output, this option implies --verbose.  For
        convenience, it also implies --tee.
 
+       Note that valgrind is run with the option --leak-check=no,
+       as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not
+       interesting. In order to run a single command under the same
+       conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to
+       the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under
+       't/valgrind/bin/'.
+
 --tee::
        In addition to printing the test output to the terminal,
        write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'.