martinvonz added a comment.
In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6356#92453, @sangeet259 wrote: > In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6356#92451, @martinvonz wrote: > > > > The future changes to run-tests.py will enable one to use mdiif > > > to diff rather than unidiff whenever the mercurial is installed in the system. > > > > Perhaps a naive question, but why is that desirable? How will I (as someone running tests) notice? > > > @martinvonz > This patch is a breakdown of the earlier patch https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5514 Oh, nice! I sometimes use `run-tests.py -i` and just accept an unreadable diff because I know that `hg diff` might make it easier to read. I had not understood why :) > There <https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5514> I have detailed why is this required. > In short, the diff output of tests is a bit ugly compared to what hg diff does, which is much nicer. > > I am thinking of putting that descriptive commit message in the patch 2/2. Perhaps also adding a "which gives simpler diffs" or something like that to this patch? REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6356 To: sangeet259, #hg-reviewers Cc: martinvonz, mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
