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authorGravatar Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>2011-06-29 10:06:32 -0700
committerGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2011-06-29 15:36:43 -0700
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test: document test_expect_equal_file
This test was not properly documented when it was originally added (my bad).
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@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ library for your script to use.
will generate a failure and print the difference of the two
strings.
+ test_expect_equal_file <output> <expected>
+
+ Identical to test_exepect_equal, except that <output> and
+ <expected> are files instead of strings. This is a much more
+ robust method to compare formatted textual information, since it
+ also notices whitespace and closing newline differences.
+
test_expect_equal_failure <output> <expected>
This works similar to test_expect_equal (see above) but is used to