Re: [PATCH 06/13] rev-list: make --count work with --objects

> The current behavior from "rev-list --count --objects" is nonsensical:
> we enumerate all of the objects except commits, but then give a count of
> commits. This wasn't planned, and is just what the code happens to do.
>
> Instead, let's give the answer the user almost certainly wanted: the
> full count of objects.
>
> Note that there are more complicated cases around cherry-marking, etc.
> We'll punt on those for now, but let the user know that we can't produce
> an answer (rather than giving them something useless).

> diff --git a/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh b/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
> index b8cf82349b..383f2c457d 100755
> --- a/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
> +++ b/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
> @@ -148,4 +148,16 @@ test_expect_success 'rev-list --end-of-options' '
>  	test_cmp expect actual
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'rev-list --count' '
> +	count=$(git rev-list --count HEAD) &&
> +	git rev-list HEAD >actual &&
> +	test_line_count = $count actual
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'rev-list --count --objects' '
> +	count=$(git rev-list --count --objects HEAD) &&
> +	git rev-list --objects HEAD >actual &&
> +	test_line_count = $count actual
> +'