> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> hat am 29. November 2018 um 08:22 > geschrieben: > > > Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > > >> +test_expect_success 'log -G ignores binary files' ' > >> + git checkout --orphan orphan1 && > >> + printf "a\0a" >data.bin && > >> + git add data.bin && > >> + git commit -m "message" && > >> + git log -Ga >result && > >> + test_must_be_empty result > >> +' > > > > As this is the first mention of data.bin, this is adding a new file > > data.bin that has two 'a' but is a binary file. And that is the > > only commit in the history leading to orphan1. > > > > The fact that "log -Ga" won't find any means it missed the creation > > event, because the blob is binary. Good. > > By the way, this root commit records another file whose path is > "file" and has "Picked<LF>" in it. If the file had 'a' in it, it > would have been included in "git log" output, but that is too subtle > a point to be noticed by the readers who are only reading this patch > without seeing what has been done to the index before this test > piece. > > If you are going to restructure these tests to create a three-commit > history in a single expect_success that is inspected with various > "log -Ga" invocations in subsequent tests, it is worth removing that > other file (or rather, starting with "read-tree --empty" immediately > after checking out the orphan branch, to clarify to the readers that > there is nothing but what you add in the set-up step in the index) > to make the test more robust.
Thanks for the explanation. First I though that "checkout --orphan" already takes care of everything but "read-tree --empty" is the way to go. Done.
