From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:26:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: modernise style: more uses of test_line_count
Message-ID: <7vpqcl4diw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <08c65508e2a643cb3352b829675f79d592c917cb.1331329464.git.stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> writes:

>  This change modernizes one (and just one) kind of obsolescent idiom
>  throughout (almost) all the tests, rather than tweaking one single test
>  with lots of different and unrelated modernizations.  This approach
>  seems safer, and IMHO makes for patches easier to write and review.

Yes, but during the pre-release "regression fix only" period is not
a good time to do so.