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[PATCH v2 2/2] t7900: clean up some broken refs

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Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2021, 12:52 UTC
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From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>

The tests for the 'prefetch' task create remotes and fetch refs into 'refs/prefetch/<remote>/' and tags into 'refs/tags/'. These tests use the remotes to create objects not intended to be seen by the "local" repository.

In that sense, the incrmental-repack tasks did not have these objects and refs in mind. That test replaces the object directory with a specific pack-file layout for testing the batch-size logic. However, this causes some operations to start showing warnings such as:

 error: refs/prefetch/remote1/one does not point to a valid object!
 error: refs/tags/one does not point to a valid object!

This only shows up if you run the tests verbosely and watch the output. It caught my eye and I _thought_ that there was a bug where 'git gc' or 'git repack' wouldn't check 'refs/prefetch/' before pruning objects. That is incorrect. Those commands do handle 'refs/prefetch/' correctly.

All that is left is to clean up the tests in t7900-maintenance.sh to remove these tags and refs that are not being repacked for the incremental-repack tests. Use update-ref to ensure this works with all ref backends.

Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
---
 t/t7900-maintenance.sh | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
index f9031cbb44b..78ccf4b33f8 100755
--- a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
+++ b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
@@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ test_expect_success 'incremental-repack task' '
 	HEAD
 	^HEAD~1
 	EOF
+
+	# Delete refs that have not been repacked in these packs.
+	git for-each-ref --format="delete %(refname)" \
+		refs/prefetch refs/tags >refs &&
+	git update-ref --stdin <refs &&
+
+	# Replace the object directory with this pack layout.
 	rm -f $packDir/pack-* &&
 	rm -f $packDir/loose-* &&
 	ls $packDir/*.pack >packs-before &&
-- 
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  1. 0/2 Two cleanups around 'prefetch' refsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 18, 2021
  2. 1/2 maintenance: set log.excludeDecoration durin prefetchDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 18, 2021
  3. Taylor BlauJan 18, 2021
  4. 2/2 t7900: clean up some broken refsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 18, 2021
  5. Taylor BlauJan 18, 2021
  6. Derrick StoleeJan 18, 2021
  7. 0/2 Two cleanups around 'prefetch' refsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 19, 2021
  8. 1/2 maintenance: set log.excludeDecoration durin prefetchDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 19, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2021
  10. 2/2 t7900: clean up some broken refsDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Jan 19, 2021
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2021
  12. Taylor BlauJan 19, 2021
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2021

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