On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:29:10PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Change a test that used a plain test_cmp to first check the file(s) > using test_path_is_file. If some of these file(s) don't exist (as > happened to me during debugging), test_cmp will emit a way less useful > message about the failure. This seems like a problem that would exist in basically every test that uses test_cmp (well, many of them do ">actual", so it's unlikely that the content would be missing, but it would be true of any test that expects a command to generate a file). Rather than annotate each site, could we teach test_cmp to show a nicer message? -Peff
