From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:11:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5601: exercise clones with "includeIf.*.onbranch"
Message-ID: <xmqq34sj583m.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZfzmdcBT5MUqoxrk@tanuki>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> With Git v2.44 this behaviour did indeed change, and arguably for the
> better. This is because we now pre-init "HEAD" to "refs/heads/.invalid"
> instead of using the default branch name. Thus, we do not match "master"
> anymore, which is likely the correct thing to do.

;-)

> Thus the current version of my test that simply asserts that this does
> something successfully instead of crashing. In my opinion, we need to
> put more thought into how this is supposed to work before adding more
> tests.

OK.  That is a sensible position to take.

Thanks.