Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > Is there a specific reason why this needs a whole patch suite, as > opposed to adding the tests to the respective test suites of the > commands? Yes, testing out-of-repository operations needs certain trick and people forget to write such tests using the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES mechanism. Having one place where we have an enumeration of commands that are designed to be usable outside repository is a handy way to make sure that we have enough test coverage. It would make it easy to control how GIT_DEFAULT_HASH environment is set during these tests to have them in all one place.
