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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:26:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_Mwj0+uWO-Ly8MTHmidjf=1P-9K1n2f0DSNzN=Or2t=bw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr1ehgq8t.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:37 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> > +test_expect_success 'branch --delete --force removes dangling branch' '
> > +     test_when_finished "rm -f .git/refs/heads/dangling" &&
> > +     echo $ZERO_OID >.git/refs/heads/dangling &&
> > +     git branch --delete --force dangling &&
> > +     test_path_is_missing .git/refs/heads/dangling
> > +'
>
> This goes against the spirit of the series merged at c9780bb2 (Merge
> branch 'hn/prep-tests-for-reftable', 2021-07-13).
>
> Can we creat the dangling ref and test the lack of "dangling" ref in
> the end in a less transparent way?

agreed. Try the ref-store test-helper's update-ref command?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-26  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-25 20:43 [PATCH RESEND] branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force René Scharfe
2021-08-25 21:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-25 23:28   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 18:19     ` René Scharfe
2021-08-26  7:26   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2021-08-26 16:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-26 17:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-27  7:24         ` Antw: [EXT] Re: [PATCH RESEND] branch: allow deleting dangling branches with ‑‑force Ulrich Windl
2021-08-27  7:53           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 18:18     ` [PATCH RESEND] branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force René Scharfe
2021-08-25 23:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-26 18:19   ` René Scharfe
2021-08-26 18:19 ` [PATCH v2] " René Scharfe
2021-08-26 19:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-26 21:01     ` René Scharfe
2021-08-26 19:12   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-27 18:35   ` [PATCH v3] " René Scharfe

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