On Tue, Apr 27 2021, Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In reftable, there is no notion of a per-ref 'existence' of a reflog. Each
> reflog entry has its own key, so it is not possible to distinguish between
> {reflog doesn't exist,reflog exists but is empty}. This makes the logic
> in log_ref_setup() (file refs/files-backend.c), which depends on the existence
> of the reflog file infeasible.
Okey...
> -test_expect_success '--orphan does not make reflog when core.logAllRefUpdates = false' '
> +test_expect_success REFFILES '--orphan does not make reflog when core.logAllRefUpdates = false' '
> git checkout main &&
> git config core.logAllRefUpdates false &&
> git checkout --orphan epsilon &&
But let's not simply skip the test, but positively test for the reftable
behavior here, or maybe that's planned for a later series.
