On Mon Aug 10, 2020 at 12:23 PM EDT, Eric Sunshine wrote: > The hard-coded SHA-1 value in the "index" line is going to cause the > test to fail when the test suite is configured to run with SHA-256. > You could fix it by preparing two hash values -- one for SHA-1 and one > for SHA-256 -- and then looking up the value with test_oid() for use > with grep. On the other hand, if you're not interested in the exact > value, but care only that _some_ hash value is present, then you could > just grep for a hex-string. Loosely, all this test cares about is that it's not "index 0000000"; or perhaps, taking another tack, that it doesn't have a "new file" line. More rigidly, it's nice to confirm that it's a diff from the empty blob and not from some other random blob.
