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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] Use git diff instead of diff in t7201
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:21:48 -0800
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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 ;-).