From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Modify pseudo refs through ref backend storage
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> writes:

> I can fix this specific instance here (which is what I think you
> want), for this commit to practice what it preaches. At the same time
> there are probably about 100 or so other places where the tests check
> the file system directly for ref(log) existence, so it would never be
> totally consistent.
>
> The only way to systematically find the offending places is to
> introduce a new ref backend and then fix all the tests, and I think
> that goes outside the scope of this small series.

Good.  I think we are on the same page.  I suggested to make the
patch internally consistent, nothing more.  And fixing everything in
the world is outside the scope of these two patches.

Thanks.