Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> There are two ways to fix an inconsistency, the other way is to fix >> test_cmp. But that would be a change, and change is not welcome in >> Git. > > If you want to do "test_cmp $actual $expect", you would have to > first "fix" people's expectation that "diff A B" produces a change > necessary to bring A to B, which would not likely to happen. We do > the 'test_cmp expect actual' for a reason. By the way, I found the other changes (especially the last one) very sensible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html