Re: [PATCH 3/4] test-lib-functions: add helper for trailing hash

[Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>]

On 12/7/2022 5:27 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 07 2022, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> 
>> From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
>> [...]
>> +# Given a filename, extract its trailing hash as a hex string
>> +test_trailing_hash () {
>> +	local file="$1" &&
>> +	tail -c $(test_oid rawsz) "$file" | \
>> +		test-tool hexdump | \
> 
> You don't need the "\"'s here.

Thanks.
 
>> +		sed "s/ //g"
>> +}
> 
> At the end of this series we have one test file using this
> test_trailing_hash, can't we just add it to t1600-index.sh?

I imagine that it would be helpful to access the trailing hash
for testing other file formats in the future. It certainly
could have helped the incremental commit-graph work, so we
could check that the filenames do match the trailing hashes.

Thanks,
-Stolee