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Has anyone built a great solution to 'run all my unit tests automatically'? It's straightforward to write a while loop in bash, but handling timeouts, syntax errors etc well is hard. Running on save would be good, although I wonder if you could run fast tests on each keystroke.

I've been building an 'extract function' refactor feature. It's surprisingly nuanced. Where do you put the extracted function? Once you've done the static analysis, what order do you use for the parameters?

It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic. It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time). It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.