Hi Brian, On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, brian m. carlson wrote:
> This is a series to make our tests hash-independent. Many tests have > hard-coded SHA-1 values in them, and it would be valuable to express > these items in a hash-independent way for our hash transitions. > > The approach in this series relies on only three components for hash > independence: git rev-parse, git hash-object, and EMPTY_BLOB and > EMPTY_TREE. Because many of our shell scripts and test components > already rely on the first two, this seems like a safe assumption. > > For the same reason, this series avoids modifying tests that test these > components or their expected SHA-1 values. I expect that when we add > another hash function, we'll copy these tests to expose both SHA-1 and > NewHash versions. > > Many of our tests use heredocs for defining expected values. My > approach has been to interpolate values into the heredocs, as that > produces the best readability in my view. > > These tests have been tested using my "short BLAKE2b" series (branch > blake2b-test-hash) and have also been tested based off master. > > Comments on any aspect of this series are welcome, but opinions on the > approach or style are especially so. Thank you for this patch series! I reviewed all 10 patches, and while I cannot say anything about whether they miss any spot, they all look sensible and correct. Thanks, Dscho
