Re: [PATCH v4 36/39] t: make SHA1 prerequisite depend on default hash

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2020, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSLQW=fMEY0o6WByeLxrnEkp751CObWOOsM1YuuiwUvoQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200726195424.626969-37-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 3:56 PM brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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> Currently, the SHA1 prerequisite depends on the output of git
> hash-object.  However, in order for that to produce sane behavior, we
> must be in a repository.  If we are not, the default will remain SHA-1,
> and we'll produce wrong results if we're using SHA-256 for the testsuite
> but the test assertion starts when we're not in a repository.
>
> Check the environment variable we use for this purpose, leaving it to
> default to SHA-1 if none is specified.
>
> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
> ---
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -1689,7 +1689,8 @@ test_lazy_prereq CURL '
>  test_lazy_prereq SHA1 '
> +       test $(git hash-object /dev/null) = e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 &&
> +       { test -z "$GIT_DEFAULT_HASH" || test "$GIT_DEFAULT_HASH" = "sha1"; }
>  '

Do we even need to run git-hash-object if GIT_DEFAULT_HASH is defined? That is, why not something like this instead?

    case "$GIT_DEFAULT_HASH" in
    sha1) true ;;
    "") test $(git hash-object /dev/null) =
            e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 ;;
    *) false ;;
    esac