Add an option to hg_sage that allows one to setup a fake repo in a tmp
directory... Then test everything on that.  Add support for queues
while you're there.  :-)
On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The file misc/hg.py needs a lot of doctests to bring things up to
> speed for Sage 5.0.  I think this would be a great way to learn about
> the internals of this, and would like to try.
>
> But unfortunately I have no idea whether it is possible to actually
> test some of these things, since running some of them would
> immediately break if someone made changes, and how the heck would one
> doctest
>
> hg commit
>
> if there is nothing changed?  And so forth.  Is a revision control
> system something one can doctest for in our framework?  Maybe it is
> pretty obvious and I am just missing something, but for instance
> testing
>
> sage: hg_sage.rollback()
>
> seems like a test that could only work once, and might even be
> dangerous.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> - kcrisman
>
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