On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:18:23PM +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 10/03/2017 20:42, Jeff King wrote: > > > > That's something I guess, but I'm not enthused by the idea of just > > > > dumping a bunch of binary test cases that nobody, not even the author, > > > > understands. > [...] > > > My real concern is that this is the tip of the ice berg. So we increased > > coverage in one program by a few percent. But wouldn't this procedure be > > applicable to lots of _other_ parts of Git, too? > > I think that index-pack is in a special position given its role as the > verifier for packs received over the network, which you also wrote here: > https://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg265118.html That's true. If we take that attitude, my "slippery slope" concerns go away. -Peff