From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:56:24 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2012, #02; Fri, 9)
Message-ID: <7vd2zlp6zb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121110123250.GR12052@goldbirke>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

>> I think it is better to keep the tests simple and maintainable.
>
> Maintainable?  There is nothing to maintain here....
> ...
> OTOH, this series has some serious drawbacks.
>
> It makes debugging more difficult....

Are these referring to the same aspect of the series?  The concern
you described about debuggability matches my impression IIRC back
when I took a look at the series, which I would count as a large
part of keeping tests maintainable.

But you may be referring to something different (sorry, not on my
primary machine yet).