Re: [PATCH] name-rev: use generation numbers if available
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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- Mar 1, 2022, 07:08 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:36 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> > Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes: > > > +test_expect_success 'name-rev without commitGraph does not handle non-monotonic timestamps' ' > > + test_config -C non-monotonic core.commitGraph false && > > + ( > > + cd non-monotonic && > > + > > + rm -rf .git/info/commit-graph* && > > + > > + echo "main~3 undefined" >expect && > > + git name-rev --tags main~3 >actual && > > + > > + test_cmp expect actual > > + ) > > +' > > I doubt it is wise to "test" that a program does _not_ produce a > correct output, or even worse, it produces a particular wrong > output. This test, for example, casts in stone that any future > optimization that does not depend on the commit-graph is forever > prohibited. > > Just dropping the test would be fine, I would think.
Stolee mentioned it. We could also convert it to a "test_expect_failure" with the expected output too... But that makes it look like something we'll fix