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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Michał Kępień" <michal@isc.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] t: add -I<regex> tests
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:00:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqblh6ktfa.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2010131337320.50@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:00:31 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>>   - diffstat with -I<regex>,
>
> I am not worried about that, either, as `diffstat` consumes `xdiff`'s
> output, therefore if one consumer works, another consumer will work, too.

Careful.  Such a "we know what happens in the code" transparent-box
testing attitude is laying a minefield for later our selves.

As we learned in a recent bug in sequencer, some corners of
implementation do the same thing in different codepaths as
optimization.  The really bad part of the story is that such an
implementation detail can and will change over time, since that is
the kind of thing we do when optimizing code.

In other words, we only know what happens in the current code.  And
automated tests protect us from the future, when done right.  If
written with too intimate knowledge of how the current code works,
well, what are we really testing?  It's a balancing act and there is
no single "right" answer, but I'd draw the line on a bit more
careful side than you are drawing here.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 12:06 [PATCH 0/2] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes Michał Kępień
2020-10-01 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Michał Kępień
2020-10-01 18:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-07 19:48     ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-07 20:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 12:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] t: add -I<regex> tests Michał Kępień
2020-10-01 17:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes Junio C Hamano
2020-10-12  9:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Michał Kępień
2020-10-12  9:17   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures Michał Kępień
2020-10-12 11:14     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-12 17:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-12 19:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13  6:35       ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-12  9:17   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes Michał Kępień
2020-10-12 11:20     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-12 20:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-12 20:39         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-12 21:43           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13  6:37             ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-13 15:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13  6:36       ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-13 12:02         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-13 15:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13 18:45           ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-12 18:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13  6:38       ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-12 20:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-13  6:38       ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-12  9:17   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] t: add -I<regex> tests Michał Kępień
2020-10-12 11:49     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-13  6:38       ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-13 12:00         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-13 16:00           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-10-13 19:01           ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-15 11:45             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-15  7:24   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes Michał Kępień
2020-10-15  7:24     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures Michał Kępień
2020-10-15  7:24     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes Michał Kępień
2020-10-16 15:32       ` Phillip Wood
2020-10-16 18:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-19  9:48           ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-16 18:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-19  9:55         ` Michał Kępień
2020-10-19 17:29           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 10:00     ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-20  6:48     ` [PATCH v4 " Michał Kępień
2020-10-20  6:48       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures Michał Kępień
2020-10-20  6:48       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes Michał Kępień
2021-02-05 14:13       ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: add an API for deferred freeing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-10 16:00         ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-02-11  3:00           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-11  9:40             ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-02-11 10:21               ` Jeff King
2021-02-11 10:45                 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-11 10:45                 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-11 10:45                 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] diff: plug memory leak from regcomp() on {log,diff} -I Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-05 14:13       ` [PATCH " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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