Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/21] t2017: mark --orphan/logAllRefUpdates=false test as REFFILES

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 17:38:02 +0200

On Tue, Apr 27 2021, Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email-masked]>
>
> In reftable, there is no notion of a per-ref 'existence' of a reflog. Each
> reflog entry has its own key, so it is not possible to distinguish between
> {reflog doesn't exist,reflog exists but is empty}. This makes the logic
> in log_ref_setup() (file refs/files-backend.c), which depends on the existence
> of the reflog file infeasible.

Okey...

> -test_expect_success '--orphan does not make reflog when core.logAllRefUpdates = false' '
> +test_expect_success REFFILES '--orphan does not make reflog when core.logAllRefUpdates = false' '
>  	git checkout main &&
>  	git config core.logAllRefUpdates false &&
>  	git checkout --orphan epsilon &&

But let's not simply skip the test, but positively test for the reftable
behavior here, or maybe that's planned for a later series.