From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 05:48:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] t4203: test mailmap functionality directly rather than indirectly
Message-ID: <7v7ggwpbut.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130712005517.GA8482@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> My current thinking is "no" --- the patch has as a justification "Now
> we can test these aspects of .mailmap handling directly with a
> low-level tool instead of using the tool most people will use, so do
> so", which sounds an awful lot like "Reduce test coverage of commonly
> used tools, because we can".

Yes, that was exactly my reaction that prompted my response.