DscResource.Tests

Common meta tests for PowerShell DSC resources repositories.

Goals

1. Consistency in encoding and indentations. Consistency is good by itself. But more importent it allows us to:
2. Avoid big diffs with cosmetic changes in Pull Requests. Cosmetic changes (like formatting) make reviews harder. If you want to include formatting changes (like replacing " by '), please make it a separate commit. Reviewers would have an option to review meanful changes separately from formatting.

Git and Unicode

By default, git treat unicode files as binary files. You may not notice it, if your client (like VS or GitHub for Windows) takes care of such convertion. History with Unicode files is hardly usable from command line git.

> git diff
 diff --git a/xActiveDirectory.psd1 b/xActiveDirectory.psd1
 index 0fc1914..55fdb85 100644
Binary files a/xActiveDirectory.psd1 and b/xActiveDirectory.psd1 differ

With forced --text option it would look like this:

> git diff --text
 diff --git a/xActiveDirectory.psd1 b/xActiveDirectory.psd1
 index 0fc1914..55fdb85 100644
 --- a/xActiveDirectory.psd1
 +++ b/xActiveDirectory.psd1
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@
   C m d l e t s T o E x p o r t   =   ' * ' 
  
   } 
  
   
  
 - 
 \ No newline at end of file
 + #   h e l l o 
 \ No newline at end of file

Command line git version is a core component and should be used as a common denamenator.

Fixers

We are trying to provide automatic fixers, where it's appropriate. A fixer corresponds to a particular test.

For example, if Files encoding test from Meta.Tests.ps1 test fails, you should be able to run ConvertTo-UTF8 fixer from MetaFixers.psm1.