Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > There are a handful of related test breakages which are found when > running t/t7700-repack.sh with GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX set to "1" in > your environment. > > Both test failures are the result of something like: > > git repack --write-midx --write-bitmap-index [...] && > > test_path_is_file $midx && > test_path_is_file $midx-$(midx_checksum $objdir).bitmap > > , where we repack instructing Git to write a new MIDX and corresponding > MIDX bitamp. > > The error occurs when GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=1 is found in the > enviornment. This causes Git to write out a second MIDX (after > processing the builtin's `--write-midx` argument) which is identical to > the first, but does not request a bitmap (since we did not set the > GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP variable in the environment). Doesn't it sound more like a bug, though? If a command line option requests something, should we still be honoring a contradicting instruction given by environment variable(s)? But anyway. > diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh > index 94f9f4a1da..127efe99f8 100755 > --- a/t/t7700-repack.sh > +++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh > @@ -629,6 +629,7 @@ test_expect_success '--write-midx with preferred bitmap tips' ' > git log --format="create refs/tags/%s/%s %H" HEAD >refs && > git update-ref --stdin <refs && > > + GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 \ > git repack --write-midx --write-bitmap-index && > test_path_is_file $midx && > test_path_is_file $midx-$(midx_checksum $objdir).bitmap && Is it a viable alternative approach to skip this check (and the other one) when GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX is set (i.e., lazy prereq). It will give us a better documentation value, e.g., test_lazy_prereq FORCED_MIDX ' # Features that are broken when GIT_TEST_* forces it # to enable are protexted with this prerequisite. test "$GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX" = 1; ' test_expect_success !FORCED_MIDX '--write-midx with ...' ' ... ' With a single comment, we can annotate any future tests that relies on features working correctly even with GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX.