From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 14:55:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5310-pack-bitmaps: make JGit tests work with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
Message-ID: <CAM0VKjnVAWdxL152MGQWFmJdHC99F=PjKpj9GdU62NV40XJi=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180510143432.GC25617@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 03:58:52PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>> Since testing bitmaps doesn't need a worktree in the first place,
>> let's just create bare clones for the two JGit tests, so the cloned
>> won't have an index, and these two tests can be executed even with
>> split index enabled.
>
> Nice, this seems like a clever workaround.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>
> The more heavy-handed approach would be to just disable the JGIT prereq
> when GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX is in use, which would cover this and
> potentially any other cases. This is nicer because it lets us continue
> using the test. And it's not like we have a ton of jgit dependencies,
> such that dealing with each individually would be a burden.

We could also 'sane_unset GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX' in these two tests,
but I think that we should do that only in tests that specifically
check split index behavior (i.e. t1700).