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+Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> git send-email is mad about lines >998 characters in the test patch, so\r
+> I=E2=80=99m sending the patches as attachments to this email. (Is there a\r
+> better way to include the expected output of a notmuch command which\r
+> outputs long lines in a test script?)\r
+\r
+What about pretty printing the json in the source?\r
+test_expect_equal_json canonicalizes both arguments before comparing, so\r
+it should be ok.\r
+\r
+d\r