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+From: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>,\r
+ Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: make test_expect_equal_file() arguments flexible\r
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+On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:55:50 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:\r
+> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:47:30 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:\r
+> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:19:54 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+> > > The down side of this approach is that diff argument order depends on\r
+> > > test_expect_equal_file() argument order. So sometimes we get diff\r
+> > > from expected to actual results, and sometimes the other way around.\r
+> > > But the files are always named correctly.\r
+> > \r
+> > Actually, I think this last point is the most important thing to retain.\r
+> > Consistency in the diffs makes reading test results much more efficient.\r
+> > The order I don't much care about. But seeing as we have been\r
+> > consistent with a particular order for a while, it seems like more\r
+> > effort than it's worth to change it.\r
+> \r
+> how about enforcing it in the test suite ?\r
+> \r
+> case $file2 in \r
+> *.expected|*.EXPECTED) ;; \r
+> *) echo "$file2" does not end with 'expected' >&2; exit 1\r
+> esac\r
+> \r
+\r
+It would break some existing tests. But I like it.\r
+\r
+Regards,\r
+ Dmitry\r
+\r
+> > \r
+> > jamie.\r
+> \r
+> Tomi\r