Re: [Outreachy] Question about check-ref-format test coverage

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

On 23/10/2026 16:53, Harald Nordgren wrote:
>>
>> ./git check-ref-format --allow-onelevel foo
>>
>> ./git check-ref-format --allow-onelevel --no-allow-onelevel foo
>>
>> it returned with an exit code of 0 and 1 respectively.
> 
> `--allow-onelevel´ and ´--no-allow-onelevel´ are contradictory
> options, and shouldn't be run together, so that's likely why it failed
> with exit code 1.
>
> This is true for any `--xyz´ and ´--no-xyz´ options.

Our commands allow "--no-xyz" to override "--xyz" which is useful when 
an alias includes "--xyz" and you want to use the alias without that 
option. The second command above exits 1 because "foo" is a one-level 
ref and we've passed "--no-allow-onelevel" which overrides the earlier 
"--allow-onelevel"

Thanks

Phillip