Re: test files with same names?

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

These date back to 368f99d5 ("[PATCH 2/2] The core GIT tests: recent additions and fixes.", 2005-05-13) which later were renamed by f50c9f76 ("Rename some test scripts and describe the naming convention", 2005-05-15). One was about checking out a regular file to a path where a directory currently sits, and the other is about checking out a regular file that requires a parent directory at a path where a regular file currently occupies. These days, I suspect that we would make these into a single "d/f conflict when checking files out" test script, and f50c9f76 might have been a good chance to do such a clean-up. If somebody cares deeply enough, I do not mind seeing a belated clean-up, either.

These seem to have organically grown and it is very likely that ones later introduced were added more from laziness.

If somebody wants to clean them up, probably the first thing to do is to study them to come up with a clear $test_description for each of them. I think t7509 says --reset-author and it may have started as a test on that single feature, but it now covers other ways to set and/or preserve authorship information, so it may make sense to update its $test_description to "commit authorship" or something, for example.