From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:45:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130908234519.GA11860@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1HXeQ1pgCeY=RsDcx4H--YHBfzmoQ4rjJ37t5N30pq5A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:25:45PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > And I do not think it is a problem. The point of the function is not to
> > abstract away the idea of comparison. The point is to give a hook for
> > people on systems without "diff -u" to run the test suite.
>
> The point according to whom? I say it's the other way around.
The point according to 82ebb0b (add test_cmp function for test scripts,
2008-03-12). I wish I had simply called it test_diff back then, and then
this conversation could have never occurred.
> Either way the fact that others are doing it differently doesn't mean
> that's the best way, that would be argumentum ad populum, and mothers
> are keen to remind us that if other kids are jumping the bridge, that
> doesn't mean we should too.
Did I once say "my way of thinking about it is the best way"? No. I said
"I think it is a matter of preference". I mentioned other systems using
a particular ordering to show that the set of people who prefer it the
other way is non-zero.
Feel free to respond, but I have no interest in discussing this any
further with you. This thread has become a giant time sink, and I have
nothing else to say on the matter that I have not already said.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-08 23:45 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
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 [this message]
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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