From 1bb5f0d8806cf820ad3a0aafab9327f9c93fa975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Caudill <lcaudill@lanl.gov>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:22:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] more suggestions

---
 bin/ch-test              | 10 +++-------
 test/build/55_cache.bats |  1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/ch-test b/bin/ch-test
index c6358a3f8..524e7b506 100755
--- a/bin/ch-test
+++ b/bin/ch-test
@@ -1206,13 +1206,9 @@ case $phase in
         done
         ;;
     rootemu)
-        if [[ ($scope != full) && (-z "$with_rootemu") ]]; then
-            if [[ -z "$scope" ]]; then
-                scope="standard"
-            fi
-            printf "error: rootemu incompatible with scope: %s\n" "$scope"
-            exit 1
-        fi
+        # assume that “ch-test rootemu” means the user wants to run root
+        # emulation tests.
+        with_rootemu="yes"
         test_rootemu optional # ch-image optional
         ;;
     run)
diff --git a/test/build/55_cache.bats b/test/build/55_cache.bats
index 8cd42bb78..c9086a1e8 100644
--- a/test/build/55_cache.bats
+++ b/test/build/55_cache.bats
@@ -1238,6 +1238,7 @@ EOF
 
 
 @test "${tag}: ignore patterns" {
+    # fails unless “__ch-test_ignore__” is included in the global gitignore file.
        git check-ignore -q __ch-test_ignore__ \
     || pedantic_fail 'global ignore not configured'