From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:34:39 GMT
Subject: Re: tests for pre-auto-gc hook
Message-ID: <47F5CBFF.1080807@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080403212656.GJ11574@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna schrieb:
> 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:
> 
> ----
> 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
> ----

Avoid 'seq'; it is not available everywhere. To avoid spawning 500
processes, you could create a pack file from the files using fastimport,
then unpack that for each test case. But you must move the pack out of
.git/objects/pack before unpacking, otherwise it won't unpack anything.

-- Hannes