[dmd-internals] test failures

[Robert Clipsham]

On 24 May 2011 18:56, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> > 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.


Yes, the idea is you run it from a backup directory, I forgot to mention
that! That said, I believe Vladimir is adding some sort of functionality to
ignore .git/.svn etc.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
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