[PATCH] test: Better handling of stdout and stderr

Michal Sojka sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz
Thu Nov 11 07:57:37 PST 2010


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:15:45 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> > Meanwhile, I've just now pushed out my little test-lib.sh change, so you
> > can update the patch for that as well.
> 
> Oh, and one other thing I forgot to mention about the patch. It
> currently talks about things along the lines of "git-style tests" and
> "cworth-style tests".
> 
> You and I might understand perfectly well what that means now, but we
> need the test suite to be independently comprehensible. (I'd like to be
> able to understand it myself when I look at it again in the future,
> having forgotten the current history.)
> 
> So if you could describe these instead as something like "tests using
> test_expect_success" vs. "tests using
> test_begin_subtest/test_expect_equal" or something like that, that would
> be great.

I'll look at this tomorrow.

-Michal


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