omitted test scripts?

[Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1103 bytes --]

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:59 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>git-read-tree -m doesn't handle the case when a file is removed from
>>>one branch and unmodified in the other, which is what happens in your
>>>test. For each of these removed files, git-merge-cache will call
>>>gitmergeonefile.py which calls 'git-update-cache --remove'.
>>>
>>>An improvement would be to make git-read-tree smarter...
>>
>>I think this was once discussed but the primary reason for the
>>behaviour is that Linus wanted to leave as much merge policy
>>decision to be scriptable without hardcoding it in read-tree.
> 
> 
> This could be OK for git-read-tree but maybe git-merge-index could have
> a --smart option to deal with trivial cases like below (or a separate
> tool). Whoever wants to write a more interactive script would not pass
> this option.

i noticed while testing the new cache API that there are no tests under 
t/ for git-merge-index.

there is also no test script that covers the prune_cache() function in 
ls-files.c.

[-- Attachment #2: cel.vcf --]
[-- Type: text/x-vcard, Size: 439 bytes --]

begin:vcard
fn:Chuck Lever
n:Lever;Charles
org:Network Appliance, Incorporated;Linux NFS Client Development
adr:535 West William Street, Suite 3100;;Center for Information Technology Integration;Ann Arbor;MI;48103-4943;USA
email;internet:cel@citi.umich.edu
title:Member of Technical Staff
tel;work:+1 734 763 4415
tel;fax:+1 734 763 4434
tel;home:+1 734 668 1089
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:http://www.monkey.org/~cel/
version:2.1
end:vcard