From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:09:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] test-lib: provide test prereq REFFILES
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_MMiFgo3jCAgRUcuaaHphHYXgNCJiq8-y+aY874FF-9dg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8e81q9p.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:37 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > "Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
> >>
> >> REFFILES can be used to mark tests that are specific to the packed/loose ref
> >> storage format and its limitations. Marking such tests is a preparation for
> >> introducing the reftable storage backend.
> >
> > We'd want a bit of documentation either here or in t/README to
> > explain things like how these two interact with each other, if both
> > can be active at the same time, etc.
>
> By "here", I meant the place in the code where the test_set_prereq
> was added, not in the proposed log message that will become hard to
> see when test writers need to work with the sources.

But this doc would be part of the reftable series, not this series, right?

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