Daniel Thayer created BIT-1476:
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Summary: btest-diff can generate too much output when a test fails
Key: BIT-1476
URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1476
Project: Bro Issue Tracker
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: BTest
Reporter: Daniel Thayer
When btest-diff fails for a test, it shows the file and then the diff of
the file vs. the baseline. For small output sizes, this can be very useful,
but it
doesn't seem useful when one must scroll through hundreds (or thousands) of
lines of output just to find where the diff begins. There is a MAX_LINES
parameter
in btest-diff to truncate the output of huge files, but it cannot be customized
and
the default value is 5000, which seems really excessive. There is also a
TEST_DIFF_BRIEF option to prevent showing any file contents, but this is
not desirable to use for tests with small baselines, and having to set it for
each
test with a large baseline seems like too much of a maintenance burden.
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