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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com>,
	David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: sh -x -i -v with continuous integration, was Re: [PATCH 1/4] t7601: test for pull.ff=true overrides merge.ff=false
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 12:07:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1tigfij8.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150516152858.GA19269@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 16 May 2015 11:28:58 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> Do we object to having to sprinkle the "verbose" throughout the test
> scripts?

Yes.  

An unconstrained "verbose" that applies to anything would make
people less careful to come up with more useful abstractions,
e.g. test_line_count, which I view as a bigger problem.

"verbose test", regardless of how it is spelled, either as two words
"verbose test", a "verbose_test" helper, or a helper function that
overrides "test", share the same issue, as their unconstrained-ness
comes from the fact that test is too broad a command.  I'd rather
want to see us move more in the direction of encouraging things like
test_line_count, which makes it easier to write new tests with less
mistakes (e.g. by hiding the BSD wc pitfall "$(wc -l <file)", in
test_line_count's case).

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-16 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13  9:52 [PATCH 0/4] make pull.ff=true override merge.ff Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] t7601: test for pull.ff=true overrides merge.ff=false Paul Tan
2015-05-14 13:06   ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-14 16:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-14 16:53       ` sh -x -i -v with continuous integration, was " Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-14 17:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-16 15:28           ` Jeff King
2015-05-16 19:07             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-05-18 18:45               ` Jeff King
2015-05-18 20:41                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-18 20:50                   ` Jeff King
2015-05-18 20:58                     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-16 12:33         ` Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/config.txt: clarify that pull.ff overrides merge.ff Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string Paul Tan
2015-05-14 12:59 ` [PATCH 0/4] make pull.ff=true override merge.ff Johannes Schindelin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-19 13:22 sh -x -i -v with continuous integration, was Re: [PATCH 1/4] t7601: test for pull.ff=true overrides merge.ff=false Johannes Schindelin

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