Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] Fix direct filesystem access in various test files.

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 09:28:31 -0700

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

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 7:44 PM Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> "Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> > This fixes a few test failures in the reftable series.
>>
>> The early part is already in 'next', and the new ones looked mostly
>> good.
>>
>> I didn't quite understand what was going on with "ls -1" though
>> (what does it even mean to "ls -1" enumerate only the filenames in
>> .git/reftable directory)?
>
>
> By listing the files before and after, we can make sure that the ref
> storage wasn't changed.

Meaning that we rely on the fact that we never append to an existing
file?  A comment here would have helped.

Thanks.