Re: [Users] hdf5 output for testsuites

On 31 Jul 2012, at 18:29, Erik Schnetter wrote:

This is a good idea. Either h5diff, or h5dump followed by diff should do the trick.

Note that we build h5diff as part of the HDF5 thorn; it is available e.g. as exe/sim/h5diff.

There is some discussion of this suggestion in https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/808 (testsuites in HDF5). I think it would be useful for testing the HDF5 output routines, but I think the usual test data should be stored as ASCII, as version control tools, editors etc, are able to diff these natively.