Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 7:44 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> "Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > This fixes a few test failures in the reftable series. >> >> The early part is already in 'next', and the new ones looked mostly >> good. >> >> I didn't quite understand what was going on with "ls -1" though >> (what does it even mean to "ls -1" enumerate only the filenames in >> .git/reftable directory)? > > > By listing the files before and after, we can make sure that the ref > storage wasn't changed. Meaning that we rely on the fact that we never append to an existing file? Thanks.
