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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2013, 23:18 UTC
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On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Calling the abstraction "test_diff" might have avoided the wasted
> brain bandwidth in this thread, but I do not think renaming it in
> test-lib-functions.sh is worth the trouble, either ;-)

Yes, but then it wouldn't be clear what's the main purpose of test_diff(). Primarily what we want is to check that they are the same. The diff is secondary, and it's not actually *needed*.

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Felipe Contreras
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Philip Oakley
Message 40 of 45 in “t: rev-parse-parents: cleanups”
  1. 0/4 t: rev-parse-parents: cleanupsFelipe Contreras, Sep 2, 2013
  2. 1/4 t: rev-parse-parents: fix styleFelipe Contreras, Sep 2, 2013
  3. 2/4 t: rev-parse-parents: fix weird ! notationFelipe Contreras, Sep 2, 2013
  4. 3/4 t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditionsFelipe Contreras, Sep 2, 2013
  5. Jeff KingSep 3, 2013
  6. SZEDER GáborSep 3, 2013
  7. Jeff KingSep 3, 2013
  8. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2013
  9. SZEDER GáborSep 3, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2013
  11. SZEDER GáborSep 3, 2013
  12. 0/4 Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditionsJonathan Nieder, Sep 3, 2013
  13. 1/4 rev-parse test: modernize quoting and whitespaceJonathan Nieder, Sep 3, 2013
  14. 2/4 rev-parse test: use test_must_fail, not "if <command>; then false; fi"Jonathan Nieder, Sep 3, 2013
  15. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2013
  16. 3/4 rev-parse test: use test_cmp instead of "test" builtinJonathan Nieder, Sep 3, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2013
  18. Jonathan NiederSep 4, 2013
  19. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2013
  20. 4/4 rev-parse test: use standard test functions for setupJonathan Nieder, Sep 3, 2013
  21. 4/4 rev-parse test: use standard test functions for setupJonathan Nieder, Sep 3, 2013
  22. Jeff KingSep 3, 2013
  23. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2013
  25. John KeepingSep 4, 2013
  26. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2013
  27. Jeff KingSep 4, 2013
  28. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2013
  29. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  30. Jeff KingSep 8, 2013
  31. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  32. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  33. Jeff KingSep 8, 2013
  34. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  35. Jeff KingSep 8, 2013
  36. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  37. Jeff KingSep 8, 2013
  38. Felipe ContrerasSep 9, 2013
  39. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2013
  40. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  41. Philip OakleySep 8, 2013
  42. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2013
  43. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2013
  44. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2013
  45. 4/4 t: rev-parse-parents: simplify setupFelipe Contreras, Sep 2, 2013

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