Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] t6600: add test cases for side-exhaustion edge cases

From: Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2026, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAL71e4MCXUnRddRVGT2jcN2YT7bbfkOmFEdriQXNPk+9W_oLtg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b4b33635-1279-46c0-819a-d29cc13921f5@gmail.com>

On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 at 15:43, Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:

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> One way to make these tests have potential to check exact stats
> without too much extra work would be to update 'test_all_modes'
> to run each command with GIT_TRACE2_EVENT set to a known trace
> file (reset each time) that can then be checked after verifying
> that the results of each command is the same.
>
> Then, these tests could have lines such as
>
>         test_trace2_data paint_down_to_common steps 20 <trace-full.txt &&
>         test_trace2_data paint_down_to_common steps 30 <trace-half.txt &&
>         test_trace2_data paint_down_to_common steps 40 <trace-none.txt
>
> after the test_all_modes line.

That does indeed look quite clean, I will try to massage the tests to utilize that, though I haven't fully worked it through in my head yet so I am not sure if/where I would get stuck. :)

Thanks, Kristofer