[dmd-internals] test failures

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Tue May 24 10:56:04 PDT 2011


> On 24 May 2011 08:18, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Works now, thanks! That has helped enormously in getting a reduced
> > test case. Bug 6049. Fix is in my open CTFE pull request.
> > Still took about six times as long to reduce the test case, as it did
> > to fix the bug. Would have been about ten times as long, without this
> > tool.
> 
> You may find DustMite useful Don, not sure if you've noticed the other
> posts about it:
> 
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite
> 
> It's written in D and designed for D, helped me narrow down a testcase
> (5000LoC -> 80LoC) in about 10 minutes with no intervention on my part.
> Just a note, make sure to rm -rf your .git directory first, otherwise
> it'll spend 10 minutes trying to figure out if it can delete it or not!

Delete .git??!! It sounds like it should be run on a backup repository or 
something. I'd _hate_ to have my .git removed. That would get rid of any 
branches that you have, any git-stashes that you've done, your exclude file, 
etc.

- Jonathan M Davis


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