Re: conflict on added files

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> "Derek Robert Price" <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.7663.1055260417.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
>  
>
> > Also, please test the result of all CVS invocations in sanity.sh, not
> > just the last few.
> >    
>
> I noticed you doing that.  Why do you do that, they're just
> junk setup commands, no?
>  

Why do I do that?  Originally, it was because everyone else did.  In 
retrospect, we don't really know for sure what order the tests will be 
run in, and even if we did, very little thought has been put into making 
sure that commands that will be used in later tests are tested first. 
If all the setup commands get tested, then tests will not be reported 
as broken when it was really a setup command that caused the problem.

As a side benefit, we are likely testing code paths that directed 
testing missed.

I'll grant that it might make more sense to ensure that the tests were 
run in the correct order, with dependencies being thoroughly tested 
first, but it's not happening that way yet and it would take some 
considerable time to do so thorough an analysis of the test suite.

Derek

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