[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #702: Tests should use IO::out_fileinfo = "none"

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#702: Tests should use IO::out_fileinfo = "none"
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  Reporter:  hinder       |       Owner:        
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:        
 Component:  Other        |     Version:        
Resolution:  fixed        |    Keywords:        
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Comment (by knarf):

 Replying to [comment:6 rhaas]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 hinder]:
 > > Replying to [comment:1 eschnett]:
 > > > Please go ahead. Ideally, you would generate the new test case
 output by removing lines from the old output, but that may be too much to
 ask for.
 > >
 > > Since the changes should be invisible to the Cactus test mechanism, it
 should be enough to rerun the tests with the new output, verify that they
 still pass, then commit the new data.  We can then use version-control
 tools to examine the diff, which should consist only of these header
 lines.
 >
 > I would actually be very surprised if the differences were only the
 header lines. Some of those test files were generated years ago with a
 compiler and options that are no longer in use. I would very much expect
 that regenerating the data would change the data in the files (this
 already happens when comparing intel and gcc compiler results).

 Are we here talking about tests that haven't run in a while? All the ones
 that are regularly run should still pass after this change, shouldn't
 they? They should be tested, using current compilers, all the time, and
 except the ioinfo, none of the generated data should change _by this
 source change alone_.

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