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Get addremove to use new walk code. It is now more verbose than it used to be. If given file names, it prints nothing, as before. But if given patterns or nothing, it prints the names of the files it is operating on, to remove that air of mystery. It also now operates at or below the current directory.
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
date Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:45:48 -0800
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3 To run the tests, do:
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5 cd tests/
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6 ./run-tests
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8 This finds all scripts in the test directory named test-* and executes
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9 them. The scripts can be either shell scripts or Python. Each test is
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10 run in a temporary directory that is removed when the test is complete.
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12 A test-<x> succeeds if the script returns success and its output
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13 matches test-<x>.out. If the new output doesn't match, it is stored in
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16 There are some tricky points here that you should be aware of when
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22 for hg up -m, set HGMERGE to something noninteractive (like true or merge)
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24 - changeset hashes will change based on user and date which make
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