[MERGE] DWIM revspecs

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:41:11AM -0500 I heard the voice of
> Matthew D. Fuller, and lo! it spake thus:
>> One additional reason merging it would fail would be that there
>> are some test failures I didn't clean up.
>>
>> I think the Rightest Answer is probably just to remove those bits
>> of testing.  The reason is because they think they're testing bad
>>  revno's, but with this change what they're ACTUALLY testing now
>> is something we can't find among the DWIM choices (which I'm
>> already testing in the TRS_dwim tests).  I'm not quite certain of
>> the right thing to do, though, so I'd like some second opinions.
>
> Well, based on the extensive feedback received, I've gone ahead and
>  eliminated some of these tests, and shuffled around others.  There
>  were some doctests this also required changes to; I'm not really
> sure if some of those shouldn't just be eliminated, since they
> don't add anything, but I'll let somebody else make that judgement
> call.
>
> In a full selftest run, this gives one new error in addition to the
>  bunch I expect from my last full run attempt, but it's in
> blackbox.test_serve, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to
> do with this change.
Perhaps this is something that could wait for the next round of
patches, but it would be nice if it was possible to register new
"DWIM" probers. E.g. I'd be interested in registering a revision
specifier that supported git short SHAs.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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