From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Brian Henderson <henderson.bj@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, e@80x24.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-highlight: add some tests.
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:31:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeg5kz8zq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160819210431.usy6x3x6sdhe3vbp@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:04:31 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> For that matter, I'm not sure that:
>
> cat >a <<-\EOF &&
> aaa
> bbb
> ccc
> EOF
>
> cat >b <<-\EOF &&
> aaa
> 0bb
> ccc
> EOF
>
> dh_test a b <<\EOF
> aaa
> -${CW}b${CR}bb
> +${CW}0${CR}bb
> EOF
>
> isn't more readable, too. It's more lines, certainly, but it makes it
> very easy to see what the input files look like, rather than cramming
> "\n" into the middle of a string (the existing code does make the diff
> easy to see for _this_ case, because the pre- and post-image line up
> vertically, but that is only the case for pure transliterations like
> this).
Yeah, the simplicity and obviousness certainly is very tempting.
With something like
CW=$(printf "\033[7m") # white
CR=$(printf "\033[27m") # reset
upfront, the test helper does not even need to worry about feeding a
random string through printf as if it is a format string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-19 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-30 15:11 [PATCH 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for git log --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-07-30 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] diff-highlight: add some tests Brian Henderson
2016-08-10 8:56 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-15 16:20 ` Brian Henderson
2016-08-15 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-17 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for git log --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 21:19 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-19 21:23 ` Jeff King
2016-08-17 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] diff-highlight: add some tests Brian Henderson
2016-08-17 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-19 14:42 ` Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 14:51 ` Jeff King
2016-08-19 15:13 ` Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for git log --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] diff-highlight: add some tests Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-19 19:30 ` Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 20:56 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-19 20:18 ` [PATCH] " Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-19 21:04 ` Jeff King
2016-08-19 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-22 15:55 ` Brian Henderson
2016-08-23 4:12 ` Jeff King
2016-08-29 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for --graph option Brian Henderson
2016-08-29 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] diff-highlight: add some tests Brian Henderson
2016-08-29 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] diff-highlight: add failing test for handling --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-08-29 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] diff-highlight: add support for " Brian Henderson
2016-08-29 21:37 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for --graph option Junio C Hamano
2016-08-30 14:07 ` Brian Henderson
2016-08-30 14:07 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] diff-highlight: add some tests Brian Henderson
2016-08-30 14:07 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] diff-highlight: add failing test for handling --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-08-30 14:07 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] diff-highlight: add support for " Brian Henderson
2016-08-31 5:02 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for --graph option Jeff King
2016-08-31 5:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] diff-highlight: ignore test cruft Jeff King
2016-08-31 5:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] diff-highlight: add multi-byte tests Jeff King
2016-08-31 5:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] diff-highlight: avoid highlighting combined diffs Jeff King
2016-08-30 8:11 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] diff-highlight: add support for --graph option Jeff King
2016-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH] diff-highlight: add some tests Junio C Hamano
2016-08-19 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] diff-highlight: add failing test for handling --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-19 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] diff-highlight: add support for " Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-17 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] diff-highlight: add failing test for handling " Brian Henderson
2016-08-17 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-17 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] diff-highlight: add support for " Brian Henderson
2016-08-19 14:37 ` Jeff King
2016-08-15 16:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] diff-highlight: add some tests Lars Schneider
2016-08-16 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-24 9:38 ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-30 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] diff-highlight: add failing test for handling --graph output Brian Henderson
2016-07-30 15:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] diff-highlight: add support for " Brian Henderson
2016-08-01 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 15:02 ` [PATCH] diff-highlight: Add comment for our assumption about " Brian Henderson
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