Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> writes:

> Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> 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.

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