> On Feb 9, 2017, at 7:26 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Why are you using an undocumented format? Doesn't seem such a good idea. > 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
