From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] t: introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:01:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z9ExM8cyOvVHHIjR@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250311212505.2920181-4-gitster@pobox.com>
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 02:25:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Earlier c5bc9a7f (Makefile: wire up build option for deprecated
> features, 2025-01-22) made an unfortunate decision to introduce the
> WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite to perform tests that ensure
> the historical behaviour that may be different from what we will
> have in the future. It would inevitably invite double-negation when
> we need to add tests to ensure the behaviour we want to have in the
> future.
>
> Introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite and replace the
> existing uses of WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite. To catch
> any future topics that add more uses of WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES,
> introduce a mechanism to mark a prerequisite not to be used, and
> use it to mark the removed prerequisite as such.
Nit: the mechanism has already been introduced in the preceding commit.
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-12 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-10 23:16 [PATCH v1 0/4] drop "name-rev --stdin" support Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 23:16 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] t: introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 23:53 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-03-11 12:57 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-11 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 23:16 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] t6120: avoid hiding "git" exit status Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 23:16 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] t6120: further modernize Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 23:16 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] name-rev: remove "--stdin" support Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 12:57 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-11 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] drop "name-rev --stdin" support Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] t: document test_lazy_prereq Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] t: extend test_lazy_prereq Junio C Hamano
2025-03-12 7:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-13 11:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] t: introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite Junio C Hamano
2025-03-12 7:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2025-03-11 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] t6120: avoid hiding "git" exit status Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] t6120: further modernize Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] name-rev: remove "--stdin" support Junio C Hamano
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