From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] Use git diff instead of diff in t7201
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:21:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3as664nn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802052306450.13593@iabervon.org> (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:30:00 -0500 (EST)")
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> My preference is NEVER using "git diff" when comparing expected
>> result and the actual output from git. When "git diff" has
>> breakage, it would break unrelated tests and make debugging
>> needlessly harder.
>
> Certainly, although we seem to do a lousy job of ordering tests currently
> such that the tests that fail are the ones for the thing that's broken;
Yeah, Porcelains have become we take for granted ;-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-04 18:36 [PATCH 8/9] Use git diff instead of diff in t7201 Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-05 1:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-05 20:39 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-05 23:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06 1:13 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-06 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06 4:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-06 5:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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2008-01-25 23:25 Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-25 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-26 0:11 ` Daniel Barkalow
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