Cut down the test suiet and make the configurations more controllable
as described at
http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2013-November/015349.html

7 patches for repository darcs-unstable@darcs.net:screened:

Thu Nov 14 06:24:18 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * add command-line options to control global test options
  Default to just running for darcs-2 and patience diff

Thu Nov 14 06:38:38 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * remove explicit choice of Myers diff from test
  it passes fine with patience diff

Fri Nov 15 00:04:11 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * add pragmas to shell tests to allow for the test to specify configurations

Fri Nov 15 06:39:10 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * add a TODO comment

Tue Nov 26 06:22:27 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * fix warnings

Tue Nov 26 07:08:04 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * need to use ByteString to read tests on unix
  Files may not be valid UTF-8

Tue Nov 26 07:08:20 GMT 2013  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * improve help text

Attachments

• add-command_line-options-to-control-global-test-options.dpatch
• patch-preview.txt
• unnamed

Had a look with
    darcs diff --diff-command "meld %1 %2" --to-patch "improve help
text" --from-patch "add command-line options"

and I found it ok.  Also, it works well in practice.

I'm accepting it (and I've documented the new pragmas in
<http://darcs.net/Development/RegressionTests> ).