Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] builtin/reflog: implement subcommand to write new entries

From: Toon Claes <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:37:40 +0200

Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

> +test_expect_success 'abbreviated object IDs' '
> +	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
> +	git init repo &&
> +	(
> +		cd repo &&
> +		test_must_fail git reflog write refs/heads/something 12345 $ZERO_OID old-object-id 2>err &&

Is the object id rejected because it's short, or because there simply
doesn't exist an object that starts with `12345`? You're not really
testing the former, which you claim in the test name.

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Cheers,
Toon