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Re: [PATCH 8/9] Use git diff instead of diff in t7201

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Feb 6, 2008, 01:13 UTC
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > Well, it's something I tripped over when builtin-checkout wasn't passing 
> > the tests and I couldn't figure out what it was doing wrong from the 
> > output. Like [3/9], it's relevant to evaluating whether the series works, 
> > even if it's not important for whether it actually does work.
> 
> Yeah, using "diff -u" instead of just "diff" is an improvement
> for debuggability which matters a lot in the test scripts.

I think I asked before and didn't hear back (or maybe I got distracted and didn't ask); do you want this to use "diff -u" everywhere or "git diff" everywhere? This test is currently part "diff" and part "git diff", and I went for git diff" everywhere, but you seemed to prefer "diff -u".

	-Daniel
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  1. 8/9 Use git diff instead of diff in t7201Daniel Barkalow, Feb 4, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 5, 2008
  3. Daniel BarkalowFeb 5, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2008
  5. Daniel BarkalowFeb 6, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2008
  7. Daniel BarkalowFeb 6, 2008
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