Re: Breaking merge_tests.py into 3 parts

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Frequently I want to test just the subset of merge_tests.py related to
> --reintegrate as a quick sanity check during development for that
> feature. To make this a bit easier I'd like to break merge_tests.py
> into three separate tests:
>
> 1) merge_reintegrate_tests.py - All merge --reintegrate tests
>
> 2) merge_tree_conflicts_tests.py - All merge tests related to
> tree-conflicts
>
> 3) merge_tests.py - Everything that doesn't fit in the other two
>

+1 This has been a long time in coming.

The common complaint is that by renumbering the tests, we break historical
comments such as "fixes bar_test FOO". But those comments are often
versioned, so a little archaeology can divine the answer. I don't think
such concerns should keep us from moving forward in the test suite.

-Hyrum
Received on 2010-05-26 20:43:15 CEST