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Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] t: allow specifying compatibility hash

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2025, 17:14 UTC
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
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> Finally, in this scenario, we can no longer rely on having broken
> objects work since we lack compatibility mappings to rewrite objects in
> the repository.  Add a prerequisite, BROKEN_OBJECTS, that we define in
> terms of COMPAT_HASH and checks to see if creating deliberately broken
> objects is possible, so that we can disable these tests if not.
Thanks for an attention for this kind of details.
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> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index 621cd31ae1..9eb79324ee 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -1917,6 +1917,19 @@ test_lazy_prereq DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHM '
>  test_lazy_prereq DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT '
>  	test_have_prereq SHA1,REFFILES
>  '
> +# BROKEN_OBJECTS is a test whether we can write deliberately broken objects and
> +# expect them to work.  When running using SHA-256 mode with SHA-1
> +# compatibility, we cannot write such objects because there's no SHA-1
> +# compatibility value for a nonexistent object.
> +test_lazy_prereq BROKEN_OBJECTS '
> +	! test_have_prereq COMPAT_HASH
> +'
> +
> +# COMPAT_HASH is a test if we're operating in a repository with SHA-256 with
> +# SHA-1 compatibility.
> +test_lazy_prereq COMPAT_HASH '
> +	test -n "$test_repo_compat_hash_algo"
> +'
>  
>  # Ensure that no test accidentally triggers a Git command
>  # that runs the actual maintenance scheduler, affecting a user's
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Message 52 of 67 in “SHA-1/SHA-256 interoperability, part 1”
  1. 0/9 SHA-1/SHA-256 interoperability, part 1brian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  2. 3/9 docs: reflect actual double signature for tagsbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  4. brian m. carlsonSep 20, 2025
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2025
  6. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  7. brian m. carlsonSep 25, 2025
  8. 1/9 docs: update pack index v3 formatbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  10. brian m. carlsonSep 20, 2025
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2025
  12. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  13. brian m. carlsonSep 25, 2025
  14. 2/9 docs: update offset order for pack index v3brian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  15. 4/9 docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentationbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  17. 8/9 Allow specifying compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  18. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  19. brian m. carlsonSep 30, 2025
  20. 5/9 docs: add documentation for loose objectsbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  23. brian m. carlsonSep 19, 2025
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  25. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  26. brian m. carlsonSep 25, 2025
  27. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  28. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  29. brian m. carlsonSep 30, 2025
  30. 6/9 rev-parse: allow printing compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  31. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  32. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  33. brian m. carlsonSep 25, 2025
  34. 7/9 fsck: consider gpgsig headers expected in tagsbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  35. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2025
  36. brian m. carlsonSep 22, 2025
  37. 9/9 t: add a prerequisite for a compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Sep 19, 2025
  38. Patrick SteinhardtSep 24, 2025
  39. 0/9 SHA-1/SHA-256 interoperability, part 1brian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  40. 1/9 docs: update pack index v3 formatbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  41. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2025
  42. 3/9 docs: reflect actual double signature for tagsbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  43. 2/9 docs: update offset order for pack index v3brian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  44. 4/9 docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentationbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  45. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2025
  46. brian m. carlsonOct 3, 2025
  47. 5/9 docs: add documentation for loose objectsbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  48. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2025
  49. 7/9 fsck: consider gpgsig headers expected in tagsbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  50. 6/9 rev-parse: allow printing compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  51. 8/9 t: allow specifying compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  52. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2025
  53. brian m. carlsonOct 3, 2025
  54. 9/9 t1010: use BROKEN_OBJECTS prerequisitebrian m. carlson, Oct 2, 2025
  55. 0/9 SHA-1/SHA-256 interoperability, part 1brian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  56. 3/9 docs: reflect actual double signature for tagsbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  57. 4/9 docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentationbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  58. 2/9 docs: update offset order for pack index v3brian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  59. 1/9 docs: update pack index v3 formatbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  60. 5/9 docs: add documentation for loose objectsbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  61. 6/9 rev-parse: allow printing compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  62. 8/9 t: allow specifying compatibility hashbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  63. 7/9 fsck: consider gpgsig headers expected in tagsbrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  64. 9/9 t1010: use BROKEN_OBJECTS prerequisitebrian m. carlson, Oct 9, 2025
  65. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2025
  66. brian m. carlsonOct 13, 2025
  67. Patrick SteinhardtOct 14, 2025

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