gedcom7code/test-files vs FamilySearch/GEDCOM.io/testfiles

[dthaler]

https://gedcom.io/tools/ points to a number of sample FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0 and GEDZIP files.

https://github.com/gedcom7code/test-files/tree/main/7 also has some 7.0 GEDCOM files that test some things not currently covered by files in https://github.com/FamilySearch/GEDCOM.io/tree/master/testfiles/gedcom70

Options:

1. Update https://github.com/FamilySearch/GEDCOM.io/blob/master/_pages/tools.md#example-familysearch-gedcom-70-files to also point to files in the gedcom7code/test-files repository.
2. Copy such files into the FamilySearch/GEDCOM.io repository. (This would be my preference.)

If we go with option 2, we should also consider copying GEDCOM 5.5.1 files from https://github.com/gedcom7code/test-files/tree/main/5 to say https://github.com/FamilySearch/GEDCOM.io/tree/master/testfiles/gedcom551 (which doesn't currently exist).

[dthaler]

Discussion 12/28/2023: We think it would be useful to also have sample files from older GEDCOM versions, to facilitate testing converters to 7.0, like the gedcom7code repository has 5.5.1 files for that purpose. James and Dave both have some older samples. We will come back to this next meeting for more discussion.

[dthaler]

Discussion 1/4/2024:

• Yes move 7.0 files to gedcom.io (maybe not the best repo but better than creating another one).
• 5.5.1 samples currently have both valid and invalid GEDCOM in the same file, and those should be factored before doing anything with them (already filed issue https://github.com/gedcom7code/test-files/issues/8).