On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes:

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So I need to check in this checkpoint file in order to test reading it in, and also the diffing? I am not sure I like that better. Shouldn't we design our test system to do this simple thing, rather than clutter our repository for all time?

Shouldn't we do the stronger test that guarantees the file format does not silently change?

I don't think an undocumented format is as much of a consideration as keeping the repo clean. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener