On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:25:45PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> > Our reader implementation will ignore one of the bitmap files, but it's
> > likely non-deterministic which one we will use. We'd prefer the one with
> > the more recent timestamp (just because of the way the packed_git list
> > is sorted), but in most test runs they'd have identical timestamps.
> > 
> > So this was probably actually testing something useful about 50% of the
> > time, and other half just testing that we could read our own bitmaps
> > (which is covered elsewhere).
> 
> At least it was testing the right thing up until 87a6bb701a
> (t5310-pack-bitmaps: make JGit tests work with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX,
> 2018-05-10) came along.

Heh, indeed. I didn't even dig into the history, and just assumed I had
botched it in 2013. :)

-Peff

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