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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more checkout tests
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:14:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlk83m8ro.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712092244570.5349@iabervon.org> (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:03:28 -0500 (EST)")

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> Of course, a patch to clean up the user experience could have a hunk that 
> makes the test expect that the UI is cleaned up. It's not like we can't 
> change our tests to accompany improvements in behavior, and I'd argue that 
> those hunks give a useful example of the improvement.

Ok.

> The point of adding these tests (and parts of tests) is that I'd forgotten 
> to maintain some of the important information while writing 
> builtin-checkout, and there wasn't a test that it was provided. While some 
> of the output is arbitrary informative text, there's a certain amount of 
> generated information there that shouldn't get lost or be incorrect.

Fair enough.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-10  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-10  3:05 [PATCH] Add more checkout tests Daniel Barkalow
2007-12-10  3:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-10  4:03   ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-12-10  5:14     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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