Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > You may disagree with some or all of those, but this series doesn't try > to get you to agree with any of them. It's just making our tests more > sturdy and explicit in their intent by clearly declaring which parts of > them are relying on our default templates. > > So it's helping us spot issues like the one fixed in 7f44842ac19 > (sparse-checkout: create leading directory, 2022-01-21) earlier. It's like arguing "this series is a bugfix, so what it fixes are by definition bugs", isn't it? > I really don't disagree with you per-se about us defining some minimum > viable template,... Well then it becomes debatable if it is a "bug" not to handle missing .git/info that needs "fixing" by this series, and it also makes it debatable if 7f44842a (sparse-checkout: create leading directory, 2022-01-21) was also a "bugfix", or just tightening against environment the end-user broke, no?