From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:15:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: allow storing counts with test harnesses
Message-ID: <xmqqr0u1agq8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZAWq5VFE/UjjtPJS@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So would it be worth it to just revert 8ef1abe550, and always store the
> meta-files? That's one less option to support, and one less surprise
> when some other feature is built around them.
>
> Or is there some reason that we really want to have a mode where nothing
> is written into t/? From reading 8ef1abe550 it sounded like this was
> mostly a hygiene / optimization thing, and not some special mode we
> cared about supporting.

Interesting thought.  It would simplify our lives to have fewer
conditionally-moving parts.

>>  t/test-lib.sh | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> The patch itself looks correct, if we want to go with a --counts option.

Yes.