From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira•uka.de>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff•net>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:33:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4na1u7wk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8uzdu817.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:31:00 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com> writes:
>
>> There are two ways to fix an inconsistency, the other way is to fix
>> test_cmp. But that would be a change, and change is not welcome in
>> Git.
>
> If you want to do "test_cmp $actual $expect", you would have to
> first "fix" people's expectation that "diff A B" produces a change
> necessary to bring A to B, which would not likely to happen. We do
> the 'test_cmp expect actual' for a reason.
By the way, I found the other changes (especially the last one) very
sensible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 6:30 [PATCH 0/4] t: rev-parse-parents: cleanups Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] t: rev-parse-parents: fix style Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] t: rev-parse-parents: fix weird ! notation Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 7:12 ` Jeff King
2013-09-03 7:51 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-09-03 8:03 ` Jeff King
2013-09-03 10:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 11:10 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-09-03 13:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 15:08 ` SZEDER Gábor
2013-09-03 17:04 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] rev-parse test: modernize quoting and whitespace Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] rev-parse test: use test_must_fail, not "if <command>; then false; fi" Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 21:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] rev-parse test: use test_cmp instead of "test" builtin Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 4:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 22:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] rev-parse test: use standard test functions for setup Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-03 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions Jeff King
2013-09-03 21:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-04 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 17:13 ` John Keeping
2013-09-04 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 18:36 ` Jeff King
2013-09-04 19:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08 3:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 4:06 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 4:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 4:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 4:26 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 4:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 5:02 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 23:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 23:45 ` Jeff King
2013-09-09 0:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08 23:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 8:11 ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-03 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-03 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-09-03 21:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] t: rev-parse-parents: simplify setup Felipe Contreras
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