Re: [PATCH 09/10] t5551: stop writing packed-refs directly

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 08:25:14AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> We have multiple tests in t5551 that write thousands of tags. To do so
> efficiently we generate the tags by writing the `packed-refs` file
> directly, which of course assumes that the reference database is backed
> by the files backend.
>
> Refactor the code to instead use a single `git update-ref --stdin`
> command to write the tags. While the on-disk end result is not the same
> as we now have a bunch of loose refs instead of a single packed-refs
> file, the distinction shouldn't really matter for any of the tests that
> use this helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> ---
>  t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
> index 8a41adf1e1..e069737b80 100755
> --- a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
> +++ b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
> @@ -359,7 +359,9 @@ create_tags () {
>
>  	# now assign tags to all the dangling commits we created above
>  	tag=$(perl -e "print \"bla\" x 30") &&
> -	sed -e "s|^:\([^ ]*\) \(.*\)$|\2 refs/tags/$tag-\1|" <marks >>packed-refs
> +	sed -e "s|^:\([^ ]*\) \(.*\)$|create refs/tags/$tag-\1 \2|" <marks >input &&
> +	git update-ref --stdin <input &&
> +	rm input

Same note here as in the previous patch, although here I think we'd
prefer to pipe from sed to git update-ref directly, rather than writing
an intermediate file which we have to clean up afterwords.

Thanks,
Taylor