Re: t8001-annotate.sh fails on Mac OS X

Stefan Pfetzing <stefan.pfetzing@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for some reason I could not yet figure out, t8001-annotate.sh fails at test 
> 18.
> 
> --- snip ---
> *   ok 17: some edit
> * expecting success: check_count A 1 B 1 B1 1 B2 1 "A U Thor" 1 C 1 D 1
> Author A (expected 1, attributed 1) good
> Author B1 (expected 1, attributed 1) good
> Author D (expected 1, attributed 2) bad
> Author A U Thor (expected 1, attributed 1) good
> Author B2 (expected 1, attributed 1) good
> Author B (expected 1, attributed 1) good
> * FAIL 18: some edit
>        check_count A 1 B 1 B1 1 B2 1 "A U Thor" 1 C 1 D 1
> * failed 1 among 18 test(s)

I've been seeing the same failed test case for a long time now on
my own Mac OS X system.  I think it has to do with the "git blame"
vs. "git annotate" war which never really happened.

I think we had hoped that one of the two tools would prove to be
_the_ annotation/blame tool and would get used but thus far that
hasn't happened.  Since they are two different implementations
they also differ slightly over how they attribute a change across
a merge, and in this case annotate is producing a different result
from blame - but that different result isn't considered to be wrong
so it hasn't been changed in annotate.  Meanwhile the test has stayed
broken as a reminder that these two generate different results.

-- 
Shawn.
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