Re: Issue tracker housecleaning: SVN-1722

Nathan Hartman wrote:
> I have the enthusiasm:-)

Great!

> More importantly this is an opportunity to learn more about the test
> program.
>
> Is it possible, through some incantation that I've overlooked, to run
> the cmdline tests against an arbitrary svn binary?

Unfortunately that's something we never got around to. I would love to
make that possible.

> Or, perhaps a better question is: how do you verify that a test fails on
> an old version and passes on a new version? (I happen to have 1.8
> installed so I'd like to verify that my new test fails on the 1.8 client
> and passes on 1.13.)

I do it by copying the new test to the old branch by diff-and-patch.

- Julian
Received on 2019-10-17 13:55:33 CEST