Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7703: ignore 'total' line when comparing ls -l output

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 08:02:43 +0200

On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 12:14:29PM +0200, Joerg Thalheim wrote:
> diff --git a/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh b/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh
> index 04d5d8fc33..9b5a428620 100755
> --- a/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh
> +++ b/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh
> @@ -299,9 +299,9 @@ test_expect_success '--geometric --write-midx retains up-to-date MIDX without bi
>  		test_path_is_file .git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
>  		test-tool chmtime =0 .git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
>  
> -		ls -l .git/objects/pack/ >expect &&
> +		ls -l .git/objects/pack/ | sed 1d >expect &&
>  		git repack --geometric=2 --write-midx --no-write-bitmap-index &&
> -		ls -l .git/objects/pack/ >actual &&
> +		ls -l .git/objects/pack/ | sed 1d >actual &&
>  		test_cmp expect actual
>  	)
>  '
> @@ -316,9 +316,9 @@ test_expect_success '--geometric --write-midx retains up-to-date MIDX with bitma
>  	test_path_is_file repo/.git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
>  	test-tool chmtime =0 repo/.git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
>  
> -	ls -l repo/.git/objects/pack/ >expect &&
> +	ls -l repo/.git/objects/pack/ | sed 1d >expect &&
>  	git -C repo repack --geometric=2 --write-midx --write-bitmap-index &&
> -	ls -l repo/.git/objects/pack/ >actual &&
> +	ls -l repo/.git/objects/pack/ | sed 1d >actual &&
>  	test_cmp expect actual
>  '

Hm. So all we're interested in is the mtime of these files as an
indicator whether they have been rewritten or not. I don't think there's
an easy, portable via POSIX tooling to retrieve that. But we don't need
it, because our test-tool already supports this functionality:

    $ test-tool chmtime --get <files>

So how about we do the below patch instead?

Thanks!

Patrick

diff --git a/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh b/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh
index 04d5d8fc33..ec7032bf5d 100755
--- a/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh
+++ b/t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh
@@ -299,9 +299,9 @@ test_expect_success '--geometric --write-midx retains up-to-date MIDX without bi
 		test_path_is_file .git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
 		test-tool chmtime =0 .git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
 
-		ls -l .git/objects/pack/ >expect &&
+		test-tool chmtime --get .git/objects/pack/* >expect &&
 		git repack --geometric=2 --write-midx --no-write-bitmap-index &&
-		ls -l .git/objects/pack/ >actual &&
+		test-tool chmtime --get .git/objects/pack/* >actual &&
 		test_cmp expect actual
 	)
 '
@@ -316,9 +316,9 @@ test_expect_success '--geometric --write-midx retains up-to-date MIDX with bitma
 	test_path_is_file repo/.git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
 	test-tool chmtime =0 repo/.git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
 
-	ls -l repo/.git/objects/pack/ >expect &&
+	test-tool chmtime --get repo/.git/objects/pack/* >expect &&
 	git -C repo repack --geometric=2 --write-midx --write-bitmap-index &&
-	ls -l repo/.git/objects/pack/ >actual &&
+	test-tool chmtime --get repo/.git/objects/pack/* >actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '