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Re: Re* [RFH] adding test coverage for contrib/ in CI jobs

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Feb 3, 2026, 23:09 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, this seems to reveal existing other problems with
>> subtree tests (t7900), in addition to diff-highlight tests (t9400)
>> in various configurations.
>>
>>   https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/21617099884
>>
>> This Ci run is near the tip of 'seen', so there may be breakages
>> attributable to new topics in flight, but I suspect that many of
>> them are already in 'master', noticed by nobody because nobody ran
>> these tests in these configurations (like "breaking changes",
>> "sha256", "leaks", "reftable", "asan").
>>
>> I didn't look into the details of any of these (yet).
>
> I didn't look into CI failures but spotted an easy one by
> eyeballing.  As we seem to be lacking a dedicated subsystem
> maintainer for this tool, I am CCing those who have touched this
> test file during the past 24 months, plus our resident reftable
> expert.

The subtree tests seems to be badly broken, so for now I've enabled the contrib tests at CI to only linux-TEST-vars job (which seems to be passing) and *-breaking-changes jobs.

Help by those who are more familiar with subtree is very much appreciated. Start by looking at failures in

    https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/21649279837/job/62409376111
Thanks.
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  4. subtree: validate --prefix against commit in splitPushkar Singh, Jan 15, 2026
  5. Josh SteadmonFeb 2, 2026
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2026
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  8. [RFH] adding test coverage for contrib/ in CI jobsJunio C Hamano, Feb 3, 2026
  9. Re* [RFH] adding test coverage for contrib/ in CI jobsJunio C Hamano, Feb 3, 2026
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2026
  11. Re* [RFH] adding test coverage for contrib/ in CI jobsColin Stagner, Feb 4, 2026
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2026
  13. Colin StagnerFeb 5, 2026
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2026
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2026
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2026
  17. Jeff KingFeb 3, 2026
  18. subtree: validate --prefix against commit in splitPushkar Singh, Feb 3, 2026
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2026

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