When diffing with spew, use a format that doesn't include pointer addresses (which

generate false negatives). This updates go-spew to 04cdfd42973bb9c8589fd6a731800cf222fde1a9.

Godeps/Godeps.json

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew",
 			"Comment": "v1.0.0-3-g6d21280",
-			"Rev": "6d212800a42e8ab5c146b8ace3490ee17e5225f9"
+			"Rev": "04cdfd42973bb9c8589fd6a731800cf222fde1a9"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib",

assert/assertions.go

@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib"
 )
 
-func init() {
-	spew.Config.SortKeys = true
-}
-
 // TestingT is an interface wrapper around *testing.T
 type TestingT interface {
 	Errorf(format string, args ...interface{})
@@ -1043,8 +1039,8 @@ func diff(expected interface{}, actual interface{}) string {
 		return ""
 	}
 
-	e := spew.Sdump(expected)
-	a := spew.Sdump(actual)
+	e := spewConfig.Sdump(expected)
+	a := spewConfig.Sdump(actual)
 
 	diff, _ := difflib.GetUnifiedDiffString(difflib.UnifiedDiff{
 		A:        difflib.SplitLines(e),
@@ -1058,3 +1054,10 @@ func diff(expected interface{}, actual interface{}) string {
 
 	return "\n\nDiff:\n" + diff
 }
+
+var spewConfig = spew.ConfigState{
+	Indent:                  " ",
+	DisablePointerAddresses: true,
+	DisableCapacities:       true,
+	SortKeys:                true,
+}

mock/mock.go

@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
-func inin() {
-	spew.Config.SortKeys = true
-}
-
 // TestingT is an interface wrapper around *testing.T
 type TestingT interface {
 	Logf(format string, args ...interface{})
@@ -746,8 +742,8 @@ func diff(expected interface{}, actual interface{}) string {
 		return ""
 	}
 
-	e := spew.Sdump(expected)
-	a := spew.Sdump(actual)
+	e := spewConfig.Sdump(expected)
+	a := spewConfig.Sdump(actual)
 
 	diff, _ := difflib.GetUnifiedDiffString(difflib.UnifiedDiff{
 		A:        difflib.SplitLines(e),
@@ -761,3 +757,10 @@ func diff(expected interface{}, actual interface{}) string {
 
 	return diff
 }
+
+var spewConfig = spew.ConfigState{
+	Indent:                  " ",
+	DisablePointerAddresses: true,
+	DisableCapacities:       true,
+	SortKeys:                true,
+}

vendor/github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew/config.go

@@ -67,6 +67,15 @@ type ConfigState struct {
 	// Google App Engine or with the "safe" build tag specified.
 	DisablePointerMethods bool
 
+	// DisablePointerAddresses specifies whether to disable the printing of
+	// pointer addresses. This is useful when diffing data structures in tests.
+	DisablePointerAddresses bool
+
+	// DisableCapacities specifies whether to disable the printing of capacities
+	// for arrays, slices, maps and channels. This is useful when diffing
+	// data structures in tests.
+	DisableCapacities bool
+
 	// ContinueOnMethod specifies whether or not recursion should continue once
 	// a custom error or Stringer interface is invoked.  The default, false,
 	// means it will print the results of invoking the custom error or Stringer

vendor/github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew/dump.go

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func (d *dumpState) dumpPtr(v reflect.Value) {
 	d.w.Write(closeParenBytes)
 
 	// Display pointer information.
-	if len(pointerChain) > 0 {
+	if !d.cs.DisablePointerAddresses && len(pointerChain) > 0 {
 		d.w.Write(openParenBytes)
 		for i, addr := range pointerChain {
 			if i > 0 {
@@ -282,13 +282,13 @@ func (d *dumpState) dump(v reflect.Value) {
 	case reflect.Map, reflect.String:
 		valueLen = v.Len()
 	}
-	if valueLen != 0 || valueCap != 0 {
+	if valueLen != 0 || !d.cs.DisableCapacities && valueCap != 0 {
 		d.w.Write(openParenBytes)
 		if valueLen != 0 {
 			d.w.Write(lenEqualsBytes)
 			printInt(d.w, int64(valueLen), 10)
 		}
-		if valueCap != 0 {
+		if !d.cs.DisableCapacities && valueCap != 0 {
 			if valueLen != 0 {
 				d.w.Write(spaceBytes)
 			}