From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:21:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] Use git diff instead of diff in t7201
Message-ID: <7v3as664nn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802052306450.13593@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> My preference is NEVER using "git diff" when comparing expected
>> result and the actual output from git.  When "git diff" has
>> breakage, it would break unrelated tests and make debugging
>> needlessly harder.
>
> Certainly, although we seem to do a lousy job of ordering tests currently 
> such that the tests that fail are the ones for the thing that's broken;

Yeah, Porcelains have become we take for granted ;-).