On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes: > > So I need to check in this checkpoint file in order to test reading it > in, > > and also the diffing? I am not sure I like that better. > > Shouldn't we design our test system to do this simple thing, rather than > > clutter our repository for all time? > > Shouldn't we do the stronger test that guarantees the file format does > not silently change? >
I don't think an undocumented format is as much of a consideration as keeping the repo clean. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
