On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:22:44AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> We use "jgit gc" to generate a pack bitmap file, and then make sure our
> implementation can read it. To prepare the repo before running jgit, we
> try to "rm -f" any existing bitmap files. But we got the path wrong;
> we're in a bare repo, so looking in ".git/" finds nothing. Our "rm"
> doesn't complain because of the "-f", and when we run "rev-list" there
> are two bitmap files (ours and jgit's).

Oh, indeed.

> Our reader implementation will ignore one of the bitmap files, but it's
> likely non-deterministic which one we will use. We'd prefer the one with
> the more recent timestamp (just because of the way the packed_git list
> is sorted), but in most test runs they'd have identical timestamps.
> 
> So this was probably actually testing something useful about 50% of the
> time, and other half just testing that we could read our own bitmaps
> (which is covered elsewhere).

At least it was testing the right thing up until 87a6bb701a
(t5310-pack-bitmaps: make JGit tests work with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX,
2018-05-10) came along.


>  t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh b/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh
> index 82d7f7f6a5..44a038881a 100755
> --- a/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh
> +++ b/t/t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ test_expect_success JGIT 'we can read jgit bitmaps' '
>       git clone --bare . compat-jgit.git &&
>       (
>               cd compat-jgit.git &&
> -             rm -f .git/objects/pack/*.bitmap &&
> +             rm -f objects/pack/*.bitmap &&
>               jgit gc &&
>               git rev-list --test-bitmap HEAD
>       )
> -- 
> 2.21.0.543.g90eed137f3
> 

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