Re: [PATCH] t1200: remove t1200-tutorial.sh

Stefan Beller wrote:

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

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Stefan Beller wrote:

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Nowadays there are better tutorials out there such as "Git from bottom up"
or others, easily found online. Additionally to that a tutorial in our
test suite is not as easy to discover as e.g. online tutorials.

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Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <redacted>
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 t/t1200-tutorial.sh | 268 ----------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 268 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 t/t1200-tutorial.sh

Interesting.  When I first saw the diffstat I assumed you were talking
about a test that validates the examples in some manpage are correct.
But this is not that.

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2ae6c70674 (Adapt tutorial to cygwin and add test case, 2005-10-13)
seemed to imply that it was testing some part for Documentation/tutorial.txt
though.

Oh, good point.

v1.2.0~121 (New tutorial, 2006-01-22) means that the test is no longer
testing what is in the tutorial in any meaningful sense.  That's why
my search for "git whatchanged -p --root" in manpages didn't find
anything.

So what your patch does still seems reasonable (we have lived fine
without a test validating the examples in that tutorial, and if we
really want a test validating the examples then we should find a way
to automatically extract it), but the description is misleading.

With a corrected description, my Reviewed-by would apply.

Thanks for catching it.

Jonathan