From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:58:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Do not use abbreviated options in tests
Message-ID: <xmqqy34tte92.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.167.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> We do not want to have tests that need to be changed by completely unrelated
> patch series, just because abbreviations that used to be unique are being
> made non-unique by said patch series.

Makes sense.

If we wanted to make sure that options in abbreviated form work
correctly, we should do so in dedicated parseopt-specific tests (and
we do in t0040, I think), not in tests for random other commands
that happens to feed options to them.

Will queue.