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authorKarl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>2015-11-10 15:28:40 -0600
committerKarl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>2015-11-10 15:28:46 -0600
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* CONTRIBUTE: Encourage adding tests.
Based on this post from John Wiegley: From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com> Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 1f02cbe: Fix bug#21766 and add test To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> Cc: emacs-diffs@gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:45:29 -0700 Message-ID: <m2y4emqwg6.fsf@newartisans.com> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg02372.html
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** Test your changes.
Please test your changes before committing them or sending them to the
-list.
+list. If possible, add a new test along with any bug fix or new
+functionality you commit (of course, some changes cannot be easily
+tested).
Emacs uses ERT, Emacs Lisp Regression Testing, for testing. See (info
"(ert)") or https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ert/