Re: [PATCH] name-rev: use generation numbers if available

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:36 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > +test_expect_success 'name-rev without commitGraph does not handle non-monotonic timestamps' '
> > +     test_config -C non-monotonic core.commitGraph false &&
> > +     (
> > +             cd non-monotonic &&
> > +
> > +             rm -rf .git/info/commit-graph* &&
> > +
> > +             echo "main~3 undefined" >expect &&
> > +             git name-rev --tags main~3 >actual &&
> > +
> > +             test_cmp expect actual
> > +     )
> > +'
>
> I doubt it is wise to "test" that a program does _not_ produce a
> correct output, or even worse, it produces a particular wrong
> output.  This test, for example, casts in stone that any future
> optimization that does not depend on the commit-graph is forever
> prohibited.
>
> Just dropping the test would be fine, I would think.

Stolee mentioned it. We could also convert it to a
"test_expect_failure" with the expected output too... But that makes
it look like something we'll fix



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