From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:12:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 15/21] init: allow alternate ref strorage to be set for new repos
Message-ID: <56C5D156.1020800@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1455742036.7528.18.camel@twopensource.com>

On 02/17/2016 09:47 PM, David Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 16:26 +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> [...]
>> Is it worth testing re-initializing with the same --ref-storage?
>> Perhaps
>> not.
> 
> Would be nice, but since we cannot guarantee that any alternate backend
> exists, we have no way to test this.  We'd have to add an entire "test"
> ref backend just for tests, which seems a bit overboard.

I meant re-initializing a repository that is using the "files" backend
with `--ref-storage=files` to make sure that it is a NOP. But I think
this functionality is unlikely to be broken so it wouldn't be a very
high-value test.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu