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diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
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--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -54,6 +54,38 @@ You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate
 	This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first
 	failed test.
 
+--long-tests::
+	This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where
+	available), for more exhaustive testing.
+
+
+Skipping Tests
+--------------
+
+In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding
+due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or
+filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes
+as pathnames.
+
+You should be able to say something like
+
+    $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh
+
+and even:
+
+    $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make
+
+to omit such tests.  The value of the environment variable is a
+SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip,
+and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole
+test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which
+particular test to skip.
+
+Note that some tests in the existing test suite rely on previous
+test item, so you cannot arbitrarily disable one and expect the
+remainder of test to check what the test originally was intended
+to check.
+
 
 Naming Tests
 ------------
@@ -123,7 +155,7 @@ This test harness library does the following things:
    (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits.
 
  - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects
-   database and chdir(2) into it.  This directory is 't/trash'
+   database and chdir(2) into it.  This directory is 't/trash directory'
    if you must know, but I do not think you care.
 
  - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to