Re: [PATCH] t8008: rely on rev-parse'd HEAD instead of sha1 value

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> Remove hard coded sha1 values, obtain the values using 'git rev-parse HEAD'
> which should be future proof regardless of the hash function used.

Don't hardcoded lengths of the hashes defeat this future-proofing
effort, though?  It shouldn't be too hard to do the equivalent of
the auto computation of abbreviation in this script, which would be
true future-proofing, I guess.

> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> ---
>  t/t8008-blame-formats.sh | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t8008-blame-formats.sh b/t/t8008-blame-formats.sh
> index 92c8e792d1..49cac4b9af 100755
> --- a/t/t8008-blame-formats.sh
> +++ b/t/t8008-blame-formats.sh
> @@ -12,22 +12,25 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
>  	echo c >>file &&
>  	echo d >>file &&
>  	test_tick &&
> -	git commit -a -m two
> +	git commit -a -m two &&
> +	ID1=$(git rev-parse HEAD^) &&
> +	shortID1="^$(git rev-parse HEAD^ |cut -c 1-7)" &&
> +	ID2=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
> +	shortID2="$(git rev-parse HEAD |cut -c 1-8)"
>  '
>  
> -cat >expect <<'EOF'
> -^baf5e0b (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:13:13 -0700 1) a
> -8825379d (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:14:13 -0700 2) b
> -8825379d (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:14:13 -0700 3) c
> -8825379d (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:14:13 -0700 4) d
> +cat >expect <<EOF
> +$shortID1 (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:13:13 -0700 1) a
> +$shortID2 (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:14:13 -0700 2) b
> +$shortID2 (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:14:13 -0700 3) c
> +$shortID2 (A U Thor 2005-04-07 15:14:13 -0700 4) d
>  EOF
>  test_expect_success 'normal blame output' '
>  	git blame file >actual &&
>  	test_cmp expect actual
>  '
>  
> -ID1=baf5e0b3869e0b2b2beb395a3720c7b51eac94fc
> -COMMIT1='author A U Thor
> +COMMIT1="author A U Thor
>  author-mail <author@example.com>
>  author-time 1112911993
>  author-tz -0700
> @@ -37,9 +40,8 @@ committer-time 1112911993
>  committer-tz -0700
>  summary one
>  boundary
> -filename file'
> -ID2=8825379dfb8a1267b58e8e5bcf69eec838f685ec
> -COMMIT2='author A U Thor
> +filename file"
> +COMMIT2="author A U Thor
>  author-mail <author@example.com>
>  author-time 1112912053
>  author-tz -0700
> @@ -48,8 +50,8 @@ committer-mail <committer@example.com>
>  committer-time 1112912053
>  committer-tz -0700
>  summary two
> -previous baf5e0b3869e0b2b2beb395a3720c7b51eac94fc file
> -filename file'
> +previous $ID1 file
> +filename file"
>  
>  cat >expect <<EOF
>  $ID1 1 1 1