Re: [BUG] test suite broken with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX

> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Christian Couder
>> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/20, Christian Couder wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you try with the following patch:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://public-inbox.org/git/20170330210354.20018-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org/
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I tried with and without that patch with the same result.
>>>> Unless I'm screwing something up when testing I don't think this fixes
>>>> the issue unfortunately.
>>>
>>> Ok, I will take a look soon.
>>>
>>> By the way I think that GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX has become redundant now
>>> that there is core.splitIndex.
>>> So perhaps in the long run it will be best to deprecate
>>> GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX and eventually remove it.
>>
>> I think you can't, at least the way I understand this variable. It's a
>> _test_ variable to force exercise split index code path a whole lot
>> more, by running the entire test suite with split index always
>> enabled, instead of just a couple in  t????-split-index.sh. We can't
>> achieve the same with core.splitIndex because that's more about user
>> control and you can't just set core.splitIndex for the entire test
>> suite (can we?).
>
> Yeah, you are right.
> It looks like we have GIT_TEST_OPTS to pass options like --debug,
> --valgrind, --verbose, but we don't have an environment variable to
> set config options.