Re: [PATCH] Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2008, 05:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vir2am95w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <873ateyxjk.fsf@enceladus.ygingras.net>

Yannick Gingras <ygingras@ygingras.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Stuart, is there anything we can help you to set up some automated
>> tests to catch AsciiDoc regression, so we do not have to suffer like
>> this again?
>
> We considered adding a nose test suite.  The upcoming v9.0 release
> involves quite a bit of code massaging and we will definitely need an
> extensive test suite.  But the test suite can only catch obvious
> rendering failures so any help in eyeballing the output will be
> appreciated.

You could go fancy like that, but I suspect that an automated test to compare the text dump (e.g. "links -dump doc.html") generated by before and after version, perhaps with minimum massaging, would go a long enough way. At least that would have caught the "gitlink" breakage, wouldn't it?