Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] remote-curl: Use auth for probe_rpc() requests too

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:41:21 -0800

Aaron Plattner <[email-masked]> writes:

> Is it worth changing up the other cases of this pattern, mostly in 
> pack-refs-tests.sh? E.g.,
>
> 	# Create 15 loose references.
> 	printf "create refs/heads/loose-%d HEAD\n" $(test_seq 15) >stdin &&
> 	git update-ref --stdin <stdin &&
>
> [...]
>
> 	# Create 99 packed refs. This should cause the heuristic
> 	# to require more than the minimum amount of loose refs.
> 	test_seq 99 |
> 	while read i
> 	do
> 		printf "create refs/heads/packed-%d HEAD\n" $i || return 1
> 	done >stdin &&
> 	git update-ref --stdin <stdin &&
>
> I can put together a patch for those.

I am fairly sure that these existing ones were written way before
the feature in test_seq to use the format parameter got popular.  A
separate patch to clean them up would be a good addition but of
course should be outside the current topic ;-)

Thanks.