Re: [PATCH 3/3] t5312: prepare for reftable

> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:19 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > -test_expect_success 'pack-refs does not drop broken refs during deletion' '
>> > +test_expect_success REFFILES  'pack-refs does not drop broken refs during deletion' '
>> >       git update-ref -d refs/heads/other &&
>> >       git rev-parse refs/heads/main >actual &&
>> >       test_cmp expect actual
>>
>> The setup for these is reffiles-specific, but it seems to me this is
>> something we'd really like to test with reftable rather than skipping it
>> entirely.
>>
>> I.e. the scenario described in the "we create..." comment in this file
>> is something that might happen with reftable too, no?
>
> That is tested in the 3 tests right above the ones I marked with
> REFFILES ('pack-refs does not silently delete broken loose ref'). The
> tests at the bottom check what happens if you have a missing SHA1 in a
> packed-refs file. The reftable backend does not have a packed-refs, so
> there is nothing to test.