Re: [PATCH 1/2] pack-objects: Teach --use-bitmap-index codepath to respect --local, --honor-pack-keep and --incremental

> Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> writes:
> 
> > Would you please explain why we should not use touch if we do not care
> > about timestamps? Simply style?
> 
> To help readers.
> 
> "touch A" forcess the readers wonder "does the timestamp of A
> matter, and if so in what way?" and "does any later test care what
> is _in_ A, and if so in what way?"  Both of them is wasting their
> time when there is no reason why "touch" should have been used. 

> > diff --git a/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh b/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh
> > index cce95d8..44914ac 100755
> > --- a/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh
> > +++ b/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh
> > @@ -8,16 +8,15 @@ objpath () {
> >  }
> >  
> >  # show objects present in pack ($1 should be associated *.idx)
> > -packobjects () {
> > -	git show-index <$1 | cut -d' ' -f2
> > +pack_list_objects () {
> > +	git show-index <"$1" | cut -d' ' -f2
> >  }
> 
> pack-list-objects still sounds as if you are packing "list objects",
> though.  If you are listing packed objects (or objects in a pack),
> list-packed-objects (or list-objects-in-pack) reads clearer and more
> to the point, at least to me.

> > -# hasany pattern-file content-file
> > +# has_any pattern-file content-file
> >  # tests whether content-file has any entry from pattern-file with entries being
> >  # whole lines.
> > -hasany () {
> > -	# NOTE `grep -f` is not portable
> > -	git grep --no-index -qFf $1 $2
> > +has_any () {
> > +	grep -qFf "$1" "$2"
> 
> Omitting "-q" would help those who have to debug breakage in this
> test or the code that this test checks.  What test_expect_success
> outputs is not shown by default, and running the test script with
> "-v" would show them as a debugging aid.