Re: [PATCH 3/3] t3428: restore coverage for "apply" backend

> phillip.wood123@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> On 10/04/2024 15:22, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> phillip.wood123@gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>>>> Hmph, doesn't this lose coverage for the merge backend, though?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think so, we had coverage for the merge backend from the other
>>>> tests before 2ac0d6273f as all of the other tests in this file use the
>>>> merge backend. We're no longer testing "--signoff" without specifying
>>>> some other option that selects a backend but it seems unlikely that we
>>>> could break that without breaking one of the other tests.
>>> OK, so we have "rebase --merge --signoff" tested elsewhere and we
>>> are replacing "rebase --signoff" with "rebase --apply --signoff"?
>>
>> Exactly
> 
> Perhaps we can write that in the log message to help the next person
> who reads the patch?  Something like...
> 
>      t3428: restore coverage for "apply" backend
>      
>      This test file assumes the "apply" backend is the default which is
>      not the case since 2ac0d6273f (rebase: change the default backend
>      from "am" to "merge", 2020-02-15).  The way "merge" backend honors
>      "--signoff" is already tested elsewhere, so make sure the "apply"
>      backend is tested by specifying it explicitly.
>      
>      Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>      Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>