[PATCH] tests: Use 'hexdump' to avoid binary characters in test outputs

[Martin Geisler]

Marti Raudsepp <marti at juffo.org> writes:

> There's obviously no end of problems with having binary files in
> repositories; in particular, merges can be problematic, and patches
> use the opaque GIT binary format, as can be seen in the recent post
> [PATCH] hgweb: fix tab alignment in file view

Yeah, that has been annoying me as well!

> So this patch works around binary content in test outputs in
> test-hgweb-commands.out and test-simplemerge-cmd.out

I've pushed (e1f4343db740) a slightly differnet patch to mercurial-crew:
instead of depending on a new tool I made a small helper in Python. But
it's the same idea, so I put your name on it :-)

> There are two more files with binary characters that I didn't touch:
> test-diff-color.out and test-status-color.out

Cool -- it seems that the escape sequences used for color output are not
enough to trigger the Git format, so I agree that we should leave these
as they are.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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