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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7501: always use test_cmp instead of diff
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:02:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljy03m2m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080909235414.GA4768@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:54:14 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:41:06AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>
>>  test_expect_success \
>>      'validate git-rev-list output.' \
>> -    'diff current expected'
>> +    'test_cmp current expected'
>
> We seem to use the convention of
>
>   test_cmp <expected> <actual>
>
> elsewhere, rather than
>
>   test_cmp <actual> <expected>
>
> as you have here.  Most noticeably, that means the diff will show
> deviations from expected, rather "what should be done to make this as
> expected".

Yes, please.  I am glad to see somebody noticed it (I've been fixing these
whenever I touched vicinity of the ones that had comparisons swapped).

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 23:41 [PATCH] t7501: always use test_cmp instead of diff Miklos Vajna
2008-09-09 23:49 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-09 23:54 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10  0:02   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-10 17:32     ` Miklos Vajna
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-09 23:37 Miklos Vajna

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