Re: [PATCH v7] read-cache: force_verify_index_checksum

[Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>]

On 5/8/2017 5:45 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:32 PM,  <git@jeffhostetler.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/t/t1450-fsck.sh b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
>> index 33a51c9..677e15a 100755
>> --- a/t/t1450-fsck.sh
>> +++ b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
>> @@ -689,4 +689,17 @@ test_expect_success 'bogus head does not fallback to all heads' '
>>         ! grep $blob out
>>  '
>>
>> +test_expect_success 'detect corrupt index file in fsck' '
>> +       cp .git/index .git/index.backup &&
>> +       test_when_finished "mv .git/index.backup .git/index" &&
>> +       echo zzzzzzzz >zzzzzzzz &&
>> +       git add zzzzzzzz &&
>> +       sed -e "s/zzzzzzzz/yyyyyyyy/" .git/index >.git/index.yyy &&
>> +       mv .git/index.yyy .git/index &&
>> +       # Confirm that fsck detects invalid checksum
>> +       test_must_fail git fsck --cache &&
>> +       # Confirm that status no longer complains about invalid checksum
>> +       git status
>> +'
>
> This test does not pass when the GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX env variable is
> set on my Linux machine.
>
> Also it looks like you sent a v8 of this patch series with a different
> test, but what is in master looks like the above test instead of the
> test in your v8.
>

There was concern about using sed on a binary file not being portable
and a request to change the test to just corrupt the checksum rather
than an index-entry, so I changed it in v8.

Does the v8 version of the test also fail on your machine ?

Thanks
Jeff