From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>,
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Subject: Re: Infinite loop regression in git-fsck in v2.12.0
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:08:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181030230833.GA12950@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ehzksjd.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:56:22PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > So maybe a good approach would be that we'd annotate all those test
> > whose fsck fails with "this is how it should fail", and run those tests
> > under GIT_TEST_FSCK=true, and GIT_TEST_FSCK=true would also be asserting
> > that no tests other than those marked as failing the fsck check at the
> > end fail it.
> [...]
> Jeff: Gotta turn in for the night, but maybe Something you're maybe
> interested in carrying forward for this fix? It's not that much work to
> mark up the failing tests, there's 10-20 of them from some quick
> eyeballing.
For this fix, I'd much rather add a specific test to the existing fsck
tests. Otherwise, we're relying on what a bunch of other tests happen to
be doing now, but there's little hope that they won't get refactored in
a way that puts a gap in our test coverage.
IOW, I think of things like GIT_TEST_FSCK as a kind of shotgun approach.
They may find things, and we should fix them and make sure it runs
clean. But ultimately, specific cases of interest should get their own
tests.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-07 12:50 "git fsck" not detecting garbage at the end of blob object files John Szakmeister
2017-01-07 21:47 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2017-01-08 5:26 ` Jeff King
2017-01-13 9:15 ` John Szakmeister
2017-01-13 17:52 ` [PATCH 0/6] loose-object fsck fixes/tightening Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] t1450: refactor loose-object removal Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] sha1_file: fix error message for alternate objects Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] t1450: test fsck of packed objects Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] sha1_file: add read_loose_object() function Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:59 ` [PATCH 5/6] fsck: parse loose object paths directly Jeff King
2018-10-30 20:03 ` Infinite loop regression in git-fsck in v2.12.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-30 21:35 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-30 22:56 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 23:12 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 23:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] t1450: check large blob in trailing-garbage test Jeff King
2018-10-30 23:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] check_stream_sha1(): handle input underflow Jeff King
2018-10-31 4:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 4:30 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 4:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 5:03 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 5:13 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 5:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-30 23:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] cat-file: handle streaming failures consistently Jeff King
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add a GIT_TEST_FSCK test mode Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests: add a "env-bool" helper to test-tool Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] tests: mark those tests where "git fsck" fails at the end Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-01 3:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] tests: add a special test setup that runs "git fsck" before exiting Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-31 13:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] cat-file: handle streaming failures consistently Torsten Bögershausen
2018-10-31 14:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 14:37 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 17:38 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-10-31 20:29 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 21:56 ` Infinite loop regression in git-fsck in v2.12.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-30 23:08 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-01-13 18:00 ` [PATCH 6/6] fsck: detect trailing garbage in all object types Jeff King
2017-01-19 11:18 ` [PATCH 0/6] loose-object fsck fixes/tightening John Szakmeister
2017-01-13 9:16 ` "git fsck" not detecting garbage at the end of blob object files John Szakmeister
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