0xPhaze

Would a simple override of the function work? I can take a look at it if you get stuck anywhere

The thing is that in that case, your bytecode will have changed, that's why it's re-deploying. As a quick fix, you can add the parameter `keepExisting = true` to `setUpContract`...

That does make sense. https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/metadata.html#encoding-of-the-metadata-hash-in-the-bytecode I could match for that part and exclude it.

I'm in favor of this change. A dev might have a reason/need to explicitly override this function. Being able to change the `fail()` behavior to an `assert(false)` statement will make...

Great, good to know. I'll use it for now. I'd still like to see this added to ds-test in the future.