From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:18:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Implement git-svn: info
Message-ID: <20071121091809.GB23266@soma>
In-Reply-To: <220901.13065.qm@web52408.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

"David D. Kilzer" <ddkilzer@kilzer.net> wrote:
> "David D. Kilzer" <ddkilzer@kilzer.net> wrote:
> > Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > > Can we expect the output of "svn info" to not change between
> > > versions?  I know "svn status" has changed between versions of
> > > svn.  I'd prefer if we keep the expected.* files hard-coded
> > > in a test directory and compare those instead.  Maybe use sed
> > > to substitute placeholders for timestamps..
> > Done.
> 
> Grrr.  I remember the reason I didn't do this in the first place.  In Patch
> 2/3, there are now hard-coded directory paths and my username in the static
> expected-* files.
> 
> That means that either I need to replace the "URL:", "Repository Root:" and
> "Last Changed Author:" fields with place-holders (weakening the effectiveness
> of the tests), or switch back to more dynamic tests.
> 
> Thoughts?

Ah, good point.

On some of my tests (t9110, t9111, t9115), I get around this by
generating a repository once and dumping it using `svnadmin dump'.

-- 
Eric Wong