April 25 - May 1, 2021 in Darker: Test Coverage Boost and Windows Compatibility

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This week, we focused on improving Darker's test coverage and addressing Windows compatibility issues. We merged several pull requests that enhanced our testing framework and fixed platform-specific problems.

We significantly expanded our test coverage, particularly for Git and linting functionality (#97, #98, #99). These improvements included refactoring Git calls, enhancing the GitRepoFixture, and adding tests for various linting scenarios. We also addressed a critical Windows installation issue (#121) by explicitly reading the README file as UTF-8 in setup.py (#123), resolving a UnicodeDecodeError that was preventing installation on Windows systems.

In response to user feedback, we made progress on resolving pre-commit hook integration issues (#113). We discussed potential solutions to make Darker more compatible with different pre-commit execution contexts, including a fallback mechanism to run against HEAD when pre-commit environment variables are not set. Additionally, we updated our build badge to point to the GitHub action instead of Travis (#127), reflecting our transition to GitHub Actions for continuous integration.

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