"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yeah, this is a possible problem. You can also see it when using git > index-pack outside of a repository with an incorrect --object-format > option. > > I'm not sure how folks want to deal with that; I'm just fine saying, > "Well, don't do that," but other folks may have different opinions. OK, so if we go back to the original breakage of the test script that triggered this discussion, the right solution would be to make sure both test repositories/object stores are prepared with the algorithm specified with GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH? Thanks.
