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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> There are two ways to fix an inconsistency, the other way is to fix
> test_cmp. But that would be a change, and change is not welcome in
> Git.

If you want to do "test_cmp $actual $expect", you would have to
first "fix" people's expectation that "diff A B" produces a change
necessary to bring A to B, which would not likely to happen.  We do
the 'test_cmp expect actual' for a reason.