Hi, Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Usually the commit message is a place to put some of the motivation behind the patch or why I should want to apply it. In this example, everything is answered by the previous patch, which suggests that it would be easier to understand if they were squashed into a single patch. [...] > +++ b/t/perf/p0005-status.sh > @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ > +#!/bin/sh > +## > +## This test measures the performance of various read-tree > +## and status operations. It is primarily interested in > +## the algorithmic costs of index operations and recursive > +## tree traversal -- and NOT disk I/O on thousands of files. Nit: git usually uses a single # to start comments in shell scripts (and likewise below). [...] > +## If the test repo was generated by ./repos/many-files.sh > +## then we know something about the data shape and branches, > +## so we can isolate testing to the ballast-related commits > +## and setup sparse-checkout so we don't have to populate > +## the ballast files and directories. > +## > +## Otherwise, we make some general assumptions about the > +## repo and consider the entire history of the current > +## branch to be the ballast. > + > +git branch | grep p0006-ballast >/dev/null 2>&1 > +synthetic=$? > +if test "$synthetic" = 0 nit: no need to run a command and read $? when using the command directly from if would do: if git branch | grep p0006-ballast This can be simplified further by using a lower-level command for the test: if git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/p0006-ballast^{commit} > +then > + echo Assuming synthetic repo from many-files.sh > + git branch br_base master > + git branch br_ballast p0006-ballast > + echo '/*' >.git/info/sparse-checkout > + echo '!ballast/*' >>.git/info/sparse-checkout > + git config --local core.sparsecheckout 1 > +else > + echo Assuming non-synthetic repo... > + git branch br_base $(git rev-list HEAD | tail -n 1) > + git branch br_ballast HEAD > +fi This kind of setup instructions usually go in a test_expect_success block so that the perf harness can detect whether they failed. > + > +test_expect_success 'setup' ' > + git checkout -q br_ballast nit: no need to use "-q" --- most output from test_expect_success is suppressed unless the script is run with "-v", at which point it becomes useful for debugging. > +' > + > +nr_files=$(git ls-files | wc -l) This also can go in the test_expect_success block. > + > +test_perf "read-tree status br_ballast ($nr_files)" ' > + git read-tree HEAD && > + git status > +' Looks nice and simple. Thanks for writing it. Hope that helps, Jonathan