Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/34] directory rename detection: tests for handling overwriting untracked files

From: Thomas Gummerer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:31:51 +0000

On 01/04, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:52 PM, SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> >> +             test $(git rev-parse :0:y/b) = $(git rev-parse O:z/b) &&
> >
> > There is a test helper for that :)
> >
> >   test_cmp_rev :0:y/b O:z/b
> >
> > Note, that this is not only a matter of useful output on failure, but
> > also that of correctness and robustness.
> 
> 
> Cool, good to know.  Is there any reason test_cmp_rev is not
> documented in t/README?

It is documented since a few weeks, I added the docs in 5a0526264b
("t/README: document test_cmp_rev", 2017-11-26).  Though as people
mention they just look in 't/test-lib-functions.sh' anyway, maybe the
docs should live there instead of in the README in the first place?

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