From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>,
"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:13:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904171356.GD2582@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqli3co7ov.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:47:12AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > test_cmp_rev follows the same order of arguments a "diff -u" and
> > produces the same output as plain "git diff". It's perfectly readable
> > and normal.
>
> This is way off tangent, but I am somewhat sympathetic to Felipe's
> "compare actual with expect", with reservations.
This isn't an argument either way, but note that JUnit (and NUnit and
PHPUnit) all have assertEquals methods that take the arguments in the
order "expect, actual". I've always assumed that Git's test framework
was imitating that, although I have no idea why that particular order is
chosen and is so common.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 6:30 [PATCH 0/4] t: rev-parse-parents: cleanups Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] t: rev-parse-parents: fix style Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] t: rev-parse-parents: fix weird ! notation Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 7:12 ` Jeff King
2013-09-03 7:51 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-09-03 8:03 ` Jeff King
2013-09-03 10:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 11:10 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-09-03 13:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 15:08 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-09-03 17:04 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] rev-parse test: modernize quoting and whitespace Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] rev-parse test: use test_must_fail, not "if <command>; then false; fi" Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 21:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] rev-parse test: use test_cmp instead of "test" builtin Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 4:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 22:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] rev-parse test: use standard test functions for setup Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions Jeff King
2013-09-03 21:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-04 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 17:13 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-09-04 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 18:36 ` Jeff King
2013-09-04 19:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08 3:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 4:06 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 4:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 4:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 4:26 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 4:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 5:02 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 23:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 23:45 ` Jeff King
2013-09-09 0:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08 23:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 8:11 ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-03 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-03 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-03 21:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] t: rev-parse-parents: simplify setup Felipe Contreras
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