Re: New test files in emacs-25 branch

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I guess new test files introduced on the emacs-25 branch will have to
> be manually added to the corresponding directory on master, since
> gitmerge.el won't be able to pull such trickery, right?


I guess this crossed my mind sometime after I offered to move all the
file locations. Probably it would have made sense to leave things till
after the emacs-25.

If this is going to be a major PITA (and it probably is), one solution
would be to create a "test/automated" directory on master. The make
files will already pick this up correctly and run any tests in it (on
master). These files can then be moved enmass after the emacs-25
release.

Is git is intelligent enough to work through a file move? Will new tests
added to existing test files in the automated directory of emacs-25
merge into the moved files on master? If not, I fear, new tests in
existing files is likely to be more of an issue. If so, then new files
in emacs-25 test/automated can be merged to master, and then moved to
the new directory structure any time on master, and new tests or changes
should follow.

Phil