From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:31:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions
Message-ID: <xmqq8uzdu817.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s349-v6xtCvbDzycVj1wBwTdAgLmuGxB0pYn6CmHYkM1Q@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> There are two ways to fix an inconsistency, the other way is to fix
> test_cmp. But that would be a change, and change is not welcome in
> Git.

If you want to do "test_cmp $actual $expect", you would have to
first "fix" people's expectation that "diff A B" produces a change
necessary to bring A to B, which would not likely to happen.  We do
the 'test_cmp expect actual' for a reason.