On 9/15/2021 12:32 PM, Matheus Tavares wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:23 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> The tests in t3705-add-sparse-checkout.sh check to see how 'git add' >> behaves with paths outside the sparse-checkout definition. These >> currently check to see if a given warning is present but not that the >> index is not updated with the sparse entries. > > Hmm, I probably missed something, but don't we already check that with > the `test_sparse_entry_unchanged` helper? The only test case that we > don't call it is 'git add --refresh does not update sparse entries', > but we explicitly compare the cached 'mtime' from before and after > `git add` there. test_sparse_entry_unchanged does a bit more by actually requiring that we fully know the mode and OID of the object in the index. Since some of the tests modify sparse_entry and then update the index using the --sparse option (including a mode change with --chmod=x), it seems more robust to avoid an exact match from ls-files. Thanks, -Stolee