Re: [PATCH 0/4] tests: use "git xyzzy" form
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:17
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:45:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Doing this _carefully_ (otherwise the result would be useless) must have been quite a lot of effort, and what was posted seems to have been done quite carefully.
Yes, thank you Nanako. After complaining about it to Junio, I expected I would have to be the one to do it. But procrastination pays off once again...
The cross-checking I did with "grep" in this message does *not* catch if you converted something that shouldn't have been converted (e.g. changing the pathname ".git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo" to "git rebase-todo" would have been a disaster). It needs real eyeballing of the patches themselves to catch such an error, and we would need help from people.
When I did this the last time, I recall that most of the errors of that sort tended to make the test fail loudly. So that is a point in our favor. However, I agree that eyeballing is a good strategy here. I just checked 1/4, which looks fine. Made much easier by the use of --color-words (even easier with -U0, but sometimes the context is helpful for seeing that it is correct). In 2/4, we change some instances of git-upload-pack, which you otherwise mentioned in your "should be left". It's in t5530 and t5602. Otherwise looks fine. -Peff