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-#!/bin/bash -e
-
-# Copied and modified from tools/run-compare-xml.sh
-
-# Copyright (c) 2012, AT&T Labs, Yun Mao <yunmao@gmail.com>
-# All Rights Reserved.
-# Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
-#
-#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-#    a copy of the License at
-#
-#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-#    under the License.
-
-# Assuming that all samples can be sensibly run at the same time.
-
-rm -fr .test
-mkdir -p .test/old/config
-mkdir -p .test/old/out
-mkdir -p .test/new/config
-mkdir -p .test/new/out
-cp samples/*.yaml .test/old/config
-cp .test/old/config/* .test/new/config
-
-GITHEAD=`git rev-parse HEAD`
-
-# First generate output from HEAD~1
-git checkout HEAD~1
-tox -e compare-xml-old
-
-# Then use that as a reference to compare against HEAD
-git checkout $GITHEAD
-tox -e compare-xml-new
-
-CHANGED=0
-for x in `(cd .test/old/out && find -type f)`
-do
-    if ! diff -u .test/old/out/$x .test/new/out/$x >/dev/null 2>&1
-    then
-	CHANGED=1
-	echo "============================================================"
-	echo $x
-	echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-    fi
-    diff -u .test/old/out/$x .test/new/out/$x || /bin/true
-done
-
-echo
-echo "You are in detached HEAD mode. If you are a developer"
-echo "and not very familiar with git, you might want to do"
-echo "'git checkout branch-name' to go back to your branch."
-
-if [ "$CHANGED" -eq "1" ]; then
-    exit 1
-fi
-exit 0