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ok 2 - plain with GIT_WORK_TREE
ok 3 - plain bare
+t/Makefile defines a target for each test file, such that you can also use
+shell pattern matching to run a subset of the tests:
+
+ make *checkout*
+
+will run all tests with 'checkout' in their filename.
+
Since the tests all output TAP (see https://testanything.org) they can
be run with any TAP harness. Here's an example of parallel testing
powered by a recent version of prove(1):