chore: clearify tidy's error message#152202
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| "file `tests/{stripped_path}` must begin with a descriptive name, consider `{{reason}}-issue-{issue_n}.rs`", | ||
| "the name of the file `tests/{stripped_path}` must begin with a descriptive prefix, consider `{{reason}}-issue-{issue_n}.rs`", |
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"prefix" is misleading as it is not essential that it includes issue-{NN} as part of the filename and thus there is no "prefix" if it's the entire thing.
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what do you think would be a good error here?
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Mm. If I had my druthers, it would be "test filenames should be descriptive instead of context-free integers", but that's probably too snarky.
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chore: clearify tidy's error message it took me a while to realize this error was due to the name of the file, not the file's content
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it took me a while to realize this error was due to the name of the file, not the file's content