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  • Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2011-08-20 11:49:38 UTC
  • mfrom: (6082.3.4 412201-mv-case-insensitive)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20110820114938-wwxmzhexrielxpq3
(vila) Allow blackbox tests and test scripts interactive debugging. (Vincent
 Ladeuil)

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be disabled if necessary by setting the environment variable
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``BZR_SIGQUIT_PDB=0``.
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All tests inheriting from bzrlib.tests.TestCase can use ``self.debug()``
 
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instead of the longer ``import pdb; pdb.set_trace()``. The former also works
 
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when ``stdin/stdout`` are redirected (by using the original ``stdin/stdout``
 
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file handles at the start of the ``bzr`` script) while the later doesn't.
 
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``bzrlib.debug.set_trace()`` also uses the original ``stdin/stdout`` file
 
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handles.
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Debug Flags
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