From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5608: avoid say and use skip_all for consistency
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 09:16:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeer9qpe6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2005221459190.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Fri, 22 May 2020 15:04:23 +0200 (CEST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi Carlo,
>
>> Subject : Re: [PATCH] t5608: avoid say and use skip_all for consistency
>
> It might make quite a bit of sense to add a visual indicator to "say" to
> make it clear that it is not a verb, but a function name. Otherwise
> non-native speakers such as myself (and maybe even native speakers) will
> stumble over the grammar of this sentence when trying to parse it.
>
> These would work better for me:
>
> t5608: avoid `say` and use `skip_all` for consistency
>
> or
>
> t5608: avoid say() and use skip_all() for consistency
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
>
>> Printing a message directly to stdout could affect TAP processing
>> and is not really needed, as there is a standard way to skip all
>> tests that could be used instead (including a message).
>>
>> While at it, update the message to better reflect the use of
>> booleans and get rid of the prerequisite.
>
> Makes sense. I would have added a sentence to say that _all_ three test
> cases were guarded by the very same prereq, so `skip_all` is just much
> faster and idempotent.
>
> Otherwise, the patch looks good to me.
Thanks, both. I see a v2 has already been posted, so hopefully that
would be the final version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-24 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 23:05 [PATCH] t5608: avoid say and use skip_all for consistency Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-22 13:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-24 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-05-22 18:42 ` [PATCH v2] t5608: avoid say() and use "skip_all" instead " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
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