From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:41:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] p5302: create repositories for index-pack results explicitly
Message-ID: <20170206144121.hrptyubhtjoyohfl@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <251bdc20-19a7-9a6c-9f5a-c7e661810c70@web.de>

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:43:29PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

> Before 7176a314 (index-pack: complain when --stdin is used outside of a
> repo) index-pack silently created a non-existing target directory; now
> the command refuses to work unless it's used against a valid repository.
> That causes p5302 to fail, which relies on the former behavior.  Fix it
> by setting up the destinations for its performance tests using git init.

Ah, right. Thanks for catching this.

I think p5302 was wrong to rely on the old behavior, and your patch is
the right fix.

-Peff