Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] list-objects-filter: only parse sparse OID when 'have_git_dir'

[Jon Simons <jon@jonsimons.org>]

On 8/29/19 4:48 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 7:12 PM Jon Simons <jon@jonsimons.org> wrote:
>> On 8/29/19 3:45 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:38 PM Jon Simons <jon@jonsimons.org> wrote:
>>>> +       test_write_lines /* >sparse-src/all-files &&
>>>
>>> Hmm, does this work correctly? I would expect the /* to expand to all
>>> names at the root of your filesystem, which isn't what you want. You
>>> want the literal string "/*", which means you should quote it (with
>>> double quotes inside the test body). [...]
>>
>> Oof, thanks -- yes, this is incorrect.  I will revert this back to
>> 'echo'.  I misapplied your initial suggesttion to all three lines.
> 
> Curious. Did the test still pass even with the unquoted "/*"? If so,
> does that indicate a flaw in the test or somewhere else?

Yes, the test also passes with the unquoted "/*".  I think this showcases
that the test really is a bare minimal sanity check that clones providing
a sparse filter argument are able to run to completion.  As-is the test
does not further assert any behavior of the filter, just that the BUG is
avoided.


-Jon