RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
>Sent: December 16, 2024 11:51 PM
>To: rsbecker@nexbridge.com
>Cc: 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>; git@vger.kernel.org; 'Linux
Kernel'
><linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; git-packagers@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0
>
>On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 07:07:25PM -0500, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
>> On December 16, 2024 1:15 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >An early preview release Git v2.48.0-rc0 is now available for testing
>> >at the usual places.  It is comprised of 446 non-merge commits since
>> >v2.47.0, contributed by 66 people, 26 of which are new faces [*].
>> >
>> >The tarballs are found at:
>> >
>> >    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
>> >
>> >The following public repositories all have a copy of the
>> >'v2.48.0-rc0' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:
>> >
>> >  url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>> >  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
>> >  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
>> >  url = https://github.com/gitster/git
>>
>> Did I miss something about GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable being
>> removed from the test suite? That was available under 2.47.0 but if I
>> supply it now, the tests crash at git init.
>
>Nothing should've changed here, and a local test run with that environment
>variable works alright on my system. Could you please provide more details?

This is on the latest OS version of NonStop x86. The test is done via the
following:
With OpenSSL 3.4 The T0625 is Expat.

When run as follows:
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=true
/usr/coreutils/bin/make -k test V=1 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Winline
-I/usr/local-ssl3.4/include -I/usr/coreutils/include
-I/usr/tandem/xml/T0625L01_AAE/include" LDFLAGS="/usr/coreutils/lib/libz.a
-L/usr/local-ssl3.4/lib -L/usr/coreutils/lib
-L/usr/tandem/xml/T0625L01_AAE/lib"  TEST_LINT=
SHELL=/usr/coreutils/bin/bash

The results are:
*** t0000-basic.sh ***
error: cannot run git init
Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0000-basic.sh' failed
make[2]: *** [t0000-basic.sh] Error 1
*** t0001-init.sh ***
error: cannot run git init
Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0001-init.sh' failed
make[2]: *** [t0001-init.sh] Error 1
*** t0002-gitfile.sh ***
error: cannot run git init
Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0002-gitfile.sh' failed
make[2]: *** [t0002-gitfile.sh] Error 1
etc for all tests.

Removing GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable allows the whole
test suite to pass.

There are environment size limits (about 32Kb) in bash on the box, so it is
possible
a boundary was crossed internal to the test setup.