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Re: [PATCH 8/9] Use git diff instead of diff in t7201

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Feb 5, 2008, 23:44 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> Well, it's something I tripped over when builtin-checkout wasn't passing 
> the tests and I couldn't figure out what it was doing wrong from the 
> output. Like [3/9], it's relevant to evaluating whether the series works, 
> even if it's not important for whether it actually does work.

Yeah, using "diff -u" instead of just "diff" is an improvement for debuggability which matters a lot in the test scripts.

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