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Re: [PATCH] Add more checkout tests

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 10, 2007, 05:14 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> Of course, a patch to clean up the user experience could have a hunk that 
> makes the test expect that the UI is cleaned up. It's not like we can't 
> change our tests to accompany improvements in behavior, and I'd argue that 
> those hunks give a useful example of the improvement.
Ok.
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> The point of adding these tests (and parts of tests) is that I'd forgotten 
> to maintain some of the important information while writing 
> builtin-checkout, and there wasn't a test that it was provided. While some 
> of the output is arbitrary informative text, there's a certain amount of 
> generated information there that shouldn't get lost or be incorrect.
Fair enough.
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