Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] t1400: use test-helper ref-store to inspect reflog contents

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:55:24 -0700

"Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]> writes:

> +TAB='	'
>  cat >expect <<EOF
>  $Z $A $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150200 +0000	Initial Creation
>  $A $B $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150260 +0000	Switch
> -$B $A $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150860 +0000
> +$B $A $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150860 +0000$TAB
>  EOF
>  test_expect_success "verifying $m's log (logged by touch)" '
> -	test_when_finished "rm -rf .git/$m .git/logs expect" &&
> -	test_cmp expect .git/logs/$m
> +	test_when_finished "git update-ref -d $m && rm -rf .git/logs actual expect" &&
> +	test-tool ref-store main for-each-reflog-ent $m > actual &&

Nice.  So the file backend may omit the trailing tab for an empty
message at the storage level, but the test-tool consistently gives
the same format for entries with empty and non-empty messages, and
that is shown in the above.  Makes sense.

> +	test_cmp actual expect
>  '
>  
>  test_expect_success "create $m (logged by config)" '
> @@ -347,11 +349,12 @@ test_expect_success "set $m (logged by config)" '
>  cat >expect <<EOF
>  $Z $A $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150320 +0000	Initial Creation
>  $A $B $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150380 +0000	Switch
> -$B $A $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150980 +0000
> +$B $A $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> 1117150980 +0000$TAB
>  EOF
>  test_expect_success "verifying $m's log (logged by config)" '
> -	test_when_finished "rm -f .git/$m .git/logs/$m expect" &&
> -	test_cmp expect .git/logs/$m
> +	test_when_finished "git update-ref -d $m && rm -rf .git/logs actual expect" &&
> +	test-tool ref-store main for-each-reflog-ent $m > actual &&
> +	test_cmp actual expect
>  '

Ditto.

Looks good to me.