Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sharness v1.0.0

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 14, 2016, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20160614214655.GA22334@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fdr8n0o.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 02:43:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > I don't think the Git project would ever want to say "sharness is the
> > upstream, and we are now just a user of it". But I wonder if we could
> > break down test-lib.sh to keep the Git-specific parts separate, which
> > would make it easier for sharness to pull the other bits as a whole.
> 
> I took a quick look around, and it seems that this is an outdated
> fork made without getting much of the improvement from its upstream
> since it forked.  It does not seem to have lazy prerequisite, for
> example.

Yeah, I don't think it has kept up with our work. My statement above was "I don't think we'd _ever_ want to consider sharness the upstream, even if it were up to date", but obviously there would be a lot of work to even get it there.

-Peff