Reviewing modifications in external snapshots

[pawamoy]

I ran pytest with --inline-snapshot=review, but it only shows diffs of the external calls, not the file contents themselves.

I understand that since the contents changed, the hash changed, and inline-snapshot sees it as an entirely different file. I think you wrote before about your plans to use something different than hashes, to maintain the same file name, so maybe there's no solution yet, and I should just wait 🙂? Or is there already a way to force external file names? I can think of a naming scheme given the test inputs.

[danvk]

I also ran into this need today. One option is to say "yes" to the prompt, git commit the changes, and then use git diff to look at them (hopefully they're close enough that it recognizes them as the same file). You can revert the changes, it's just helpful to have a commit to help git sort out what's related to what.

[pawamoy]

Thanks @danvk! Yeah I figured that too, running with --inline-snapshot=fix then git diff. However it didn't recognize the new files as being renamed (maybe because the old ones hadn't been removed?). Still, I was able to inspect their contents manually (and revert the changes).

[15r10nk]

Yes this is not ideal. it will be possible with the new external implementation #86.

[pawamoy]

Thanks for confirming @15r10nk 😄