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Changes since v3:

 * 2/3: improved the wording for the warning and caution as suggested by
   Elijah,, and moved the warning so it relates to the use of test_pause
   itself, not just the new flags, as suggested by Junio. Adapted the commit
   messages accordingly.
 * 3/3: changed the approach: instead of changing HOME, just copy ~/.gdbinit
   and ~/.lldbinit to the test HOME, as suggested by Carlo. This seems safer
   as this way $USER_HOME/.gitconfig does not interfere with the behaviour
   of the command being debugged (as Junio remarked in [1], but for
   test_pause). If other config files are needed for other debuggers, they
   can be added when the need arises.
 * [23]/3: also adapted the synopsys of 'test_pause' and 'debug' in t/README
   for better discoverability of the new features.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqa6kvoptx.fsf@gitster.g/

v3:

 * Added '-a' flag as suggested by Elijah, equivalent to '-t -s -h' for
   'test_pause' and to '-t -h' for 'debug'

v2:

 * added 1/3 as a preliminary step to use TEST_SHELL_PATH in test_pause
   instead of SHELL_PATH, as suggested by Carlo
 * implemented the change in behaviour through optional flags in both
   test_pause and debug. This seemed to be the simplest way to keep the
   current behaviour but also provide a way to improve the UX.

v1: This series proposes two small quality-of-life improvements (in my
opinion) to the 'test_pause' and 'debug' test functions: using the original
values of HOME and TERM (before they are changed by the test framework) and
using SHELL instead of SHELL_PATH.

The later might be too big of a change, but I think it makes sense. We could
add a new GIT_TEST_* to conditionnaly change the behaviour, but I kept it
simple for v1.

Cheers, Philippe.

Philippe Blain (3):
  test-lib-functions: use 'TEST_SHELL_PATH' in 'test_pause'
  test-lib-functions: optionally keep HOME, TERM and SHELL in
    'test_pause'
  test-lib-functions: keep user's debugger config files and TERM in
    'debug'

 t/README                |  11 ++--
 t/test-lib-functions.sh | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 t/test-lib.sh           |   6 ++-
 3 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

base-commit: 225bc32a989d7a22fa6addafd4ce7dcd04675dbf

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