From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:26:56 GMT
Subject: tests for pre-auto-gc hook (WAS: Re: [PATCH 3/3] contrib/hooks: add an example pre-auto-gc hook)
Message-ID: <20080403212656.GJ11574@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080402204524.GZ3264@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

I wanted to create a test like t7503-pre-commit-hook.sh for pre-auto-gc
but actually I'm not sure how to trigger git gc --auto to do something.

Here is what I managed to do so far:

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git init
git config gc.auto 1
for i in `seq 1 500`; do echo $i >file; git add file; done
git commit -m init
----

After this, 'git gc --auto' seem to print the 'Auto packing your
repository for optimum performance.' message, but the return code is
still 0, just like if it did not do anything.

So all what I found is that the .git/objects/pack/ directory is empty in
a new repo, and if git gc --auto did something, it won't be empty but:

1) this isn't the proper way I'm sure.

2) if I want to do it from a test, then I would need to create the repo
from scratch again and again, which is quite dirty.

Does anyone have better ideas?

Thanks