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authorCarolina <andreas@editd.com>2015-03-22 11:19:22 +0000
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-03-24 10:45:58 -0400
commit118cae2df8c89b63a2dcecab0728e6199f101fa1 (patch)
treefa44f620d36ce2aa469166f808c585da48e9ba85 /docs
parentfca14cd3f27a01f7ba1fe32ea9587fa75b85713a (diff)
Fixed #23666 -- Recommended Git Bash for running unit tests on Windows.
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diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
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--- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ sample settings module that uses the SQLite database. To run the tests::
$ cd django-repo/tests
$ PYTHONPATH=..:$PYTHONPATH ./runtests.py
+.. admonition:: Windows users
+
+ We recommend something like `Git Bash <https://msysgit.github.io/>`_ to run
+ the tests using the above approach.
+
You can avoid typing the ``PYTHONPATH`` bit each time by adding your Django
checkout to your ``PYTHONPATH`` or by installing the source checkout using pip.
See :ref:`installing-development-version`.