On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "If there is interest"? Shut up and take my money ;-) Yeah. This may be the next big thing since pack bitmap. It's even better if it enters 'master' hand in hand with pack protocol v2, but I think v2 needs more time. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:50 AM, David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To test this backend's correctness, I hacked test-lib.sh and > test-lib-functions.sh to run all tests under the refs backend. Now we have two. split-index also benefits from running through full test suite like this. I propose we make "make test" run the test suite twice. The first run is with default configuration, no split index, no fancy ref backend. The second run enables split-index and switches to new backend, running through all test cases. In future we can also enable packv4 in this second run. There won't be a third run. When the second ref backend comes, we can switch between the two backends using a random number generator where we control both algorithm and seed, so that when a test fails, the user can give us their seed and we can re-run with the same configuration. > Dozens of tests use manual ref/reflog reading/writing, or create submodules > without passing --refs-backend-type to git init. If those tests are > changed to use the update-ref machinery or test-refs-be-db (or, in the > case of packed-refs, corrupt refs, and dumb fetch tests, are skipped), > the only remaining failing tests are the git-new-workdir tests and the > gitweb tests. I haven't read the series, but I guess you should also add a few tests to run on the first run, so new code is exercised a bit even if people skip the second run. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html