[PATCH] test: make test_expect_equal_file() arguments flexible

[Tomi Ollila]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:47:30 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Wed,  1 Feb 2012 11:19:54 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The down side of this approach is that diff argument order depends on
> > test_expect_equal_file() argument order.  So sometimes we get diff
> > from expected to actual results, and sometimes the other way around.
> > But the files are always named correctly.
> 
> Actually, I think this last point is the most important thing to retain.
> Consistency in the diffs makes reading test results much more efficient.
> The order I don't much care about.  But seeing as we have been
> consistent with a particular order for a while, it seems like more
> effort than it's worth to change it.

how about enforcing it in the test suite ?

case $file2 in 
	*.expected|*.EXPECTED) ;; 
        *) echo "$file2" does not end with 'expected' >&2; exit 1
esac

> 
> jamie.

Tomi