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Summary

Improve formatting when dealing with time.Time now we vendored gospew

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Now, go-spew is vendored, we can fix old issues we had.

We can fix the representation of time.Time in gospew

And remove the imperfect fix we had in place.

Motivation

#895 was created by @luan to solve some legitimate issues. It was released with v1.6.0 on May 29, 2020

But unfortunately, the changes lead to an issue with the way time.Time are rendered. So #989 was opened on Aug 1, 2020 by @AlekSi

The issue was somehow fixed with #1072 by @HaraldNordgren

#1072 was merged in Apr 27, 2021 (but only released in Mar 1, 2024 with v1.7.1 )

Unfortunately, the fix was incomplete, as it was working only for first level, so #1078 was opened on May 22, 2021 by @shawc71

#1079 was opened by @shawc71 on May 22, 2021 to try to fix the issue

But it was never merged, as the solution was also imperfect, and because they were no solution inside testify to fix this

So #1078 was left open until now.

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@ccoVeille ccoVeille changed the title chore: import go-spew from https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew fix: time.Time rendering in the diff returned by error message Nov 18, 2025
Now we vendored go-spew we can modify how time.Time values are handled.

We can remove the imperfect fix we had in place before.
@ccoVeille ccoVeille force-pushed the gospew-time-stringer branch from 3f71fbe to 7b28236 Compare November 28, 2025 11:38
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@brackendawson please review, it's ready.

I'm facing this issue with testify for ages, I cannot wait to see it fixed 😬

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Diffs on structs with nested time.Time objects produce hard to read diffs

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