From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:44:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] t/: port helper/test-sha1.c to unit-tests/t-hash.c
Message-ID: <xmqqr0cva2gb.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240616045259.GA17750@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So no, git-hash-object can't be used to test this. You have to directly
> hash some contents with sha1, and I don't think there is any way to do
> that with regular Git commands.
>
> So I think we need to keep some mechanism for computing the sha1 of
> arbitrary contents.

You're right.  We'd need a separate test helper if we wanted to keep
using the shattered sample files as-is (which we do).

Thanks.