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@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a test suite
addition that exercises it. If you fix a bug, add at least one test that
fails without the patch, but that succeeds once your patch is applied.
If you add a feature, add tests to exercise as much of the new code
-as possible.
+as possible. Note to run tests/misc/newtest in isolation you can do:
+
+ (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes)
There are hundreds of tests in the tests/ directories. You can use
tests/sample-test as a template, or one of the various Perl-based ones