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[PATCH 05/16] t5312: create bogus ref as necessary

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 24, 2021, 18:36 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Some tests in t5312 create an illegally-named ref, and then see how various operations handle it. But between those operations, we also do some more setup (e.g., repacking), and we are subtly depending on how those setup steps react to the illegal ref.

To future-proof us against those behaviors changing, let's instead create and clean up our bogus ref on demand in the tests that need it.

This has two small extra advantages:
 - the tests are more stand-alone; we do not need an extra test to clean
   up the ref before moving on to other parts of the script
 - the creation and cleanup is together in one helper function. Because
   these depend on touching the refs in the filesystem directly, they
   may need to be tweaked for a world with alternate backends (they have
   not been noticed so far in the reftable work because with a non-file
   backend the tests don't fail; they simply become uninteresting noops
   because the broken ref isn't read at all).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 t/t5312-prune-corruption.sh | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t5312-prune-corruption.sh b/t/t5312-prune-corruption.sh
index 165cc80fa4..0704f3e930 100755
--- a/t/t5312-prune-corruption.sh
+++ b/t/t5312-prune-corruption.sh
@@ -18,18 +18,23 @@ test_expect_success 'disable reflogs' '
 	git reflog expire --expire=all --all
 '
 
+create_bogus_ref () {
+	test_when_finished 'rm -f .git/refs/heads/bogus..name' &&
+	echo $bogus >.git/refs/heads/bogus..name
+}
+
 test_expect_success 'create history reachable only from a bogus-named ref' '
 	test_tick && git commit --allow-empty -m main &&
 	base=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
 	test_tick && git commit --allow-empty -m bogus &&
 	bogus=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
 	git cat-file commit $bogus >saved &&
-	echo $bogus >.git/refs/heads/bogus..name &&
 	git reset --hard HEAD^
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'pruning does not drop bogus object' '
 	test_when_finished "git hash-object -w -t commit saved" &&
+	create_bogus_ref &&
 	test_might_fail git prune --expire=now &&
 	git cat-file -e $bogus
 '
@@ -42,17 +47,13 @@ test_expect_success 'put bogus object into pack' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'destructive repack keeps packed object' '
+	create_bogus_ref &&
 	test_might_fail git repack -Ad --unpack-unreachable=now &&
 	git cat-file -e $bogus &&
 	test_might_fail git repack -ad &&
 	git cat-file -e $bogus
 '
 
-# subsequent tests will have different corruptions
-test_expect_success 'clean up bogus ref' '
-	rm .git/refs/heads/bogus..name
-'
-
 # We create two new objects here, "one" and "two". Our
 # main branch points to "two", which is deleted,
 # corrupting the repository. But we'd like to make sure
-- 
2.33.0.1071.gb37e412355
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Message 8 of 22 in “enabling GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default”
  1. 0/16 enabling GIT_REF_PARANOIA by defaultJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  2. 01/16 t7900: clean up some more broken refsJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  3. Jonathan TanSep 27, 2021
  4. Jeff KingSep 27, 2021
  5. 02/16 t5516: don't use HEAD ref for invalid ref-deletion testsJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  6. 03/16 t5600: provide detached HEAD for corruption failuresJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  7. 04/16 t5312: drop "verbose" helperJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  8. 05/16 t5312: create bogus ref as necessaryJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  9. 06/16 t5312: test non-destructive repackJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  10. 07/16 t5312: be more assertive about command failureJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  11. 08/16 refs-internal.h: move DO_FOR_EACH_* flags next to each otherJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  12. 09/16 refs-internal.h: reorganize DO_FOR_EACH_* flag documentationJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  13. 10/16 refs: add DO_FOR_EACH_OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flagJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  14. 11/16 refs: omit dangling symrefs when using GIT_REF_PARANOIAJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  15. 12/16 refs: turn on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by defaultJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  16. Jonathan TanSep 27, 2021
  17. 13/16 repack, prune: drop GIT_REF_PARANOIA settingsJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  18. 14/16 ref-filter: stop setting FILTER_REFS_INCLUDE_BROKENJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  19. 15/16 ref-filter: drop broken-ref code entirelyJeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  20. 16/16 refs: drop "broken" flag from for_each_fullref_in()Jeff King, Sep 24, 2021
  21. Jonathan TanSep 27, 2021
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2021

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