Re: [PATCH] t1016: make sure to use specified GPG

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

Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:

> Interesting.  And well-spotted.
>
> This _does_ seem to resolve the failures in our CI and in
> the Fedora build system.  I was able to run a few test
> builds.  With this fix, the tests were successful where they
> were not without it.
>
> I remember suspecting the gpg calls were not using the
> wrapper command in gpg.program.  I even tried forcing the
> --faked-system-time for all the tests to check that theory,
> unsuccessfully.
>
> Oddly, I ran into test failures after fixing the GPG2 prereq
> long before c348192afe (t1016: clean up style, 2024-10-22)
> was in place.  Perhaps I was hitting a different issue
> initially?  Then, when I looked at it again I didn't think
> about gpg.program again, since I'd already tried to force
> the gpg wrapper which sets --faked-system-time.
>
> It's both annoying and embarrassing if it is that simple and
> I missed it after looking a few times, to be sure.  But I'll
> be happy with the end result all the same. :)

FWIW, GitHub CI jobs are failing t1016 at the tip of 'seen' (which
has this change), but only some and not all the jobs, which may
indicate there are timeing-dependent flakes involved.  I didn't dig
further, though.

>>  t/t1016-compatObjectFormat.sh | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/t/t1016-compatObjectFormat.sh b/t/t1016-compatObjectFormat.sh
>> index 8341a2fe83..cb6d308f1d 100755
>> --- a/t/t1016-compatObjectFormat.sh
>> +++ b/t/t1016-compatObjectFormat.sh
>> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ do
>>  		git config core.repositoryformatversion 1 &&
>>  		git config extensions.objectformat $hash &&
>>  		git config extensions.compatobjectformat $(compat_hash $hash) &&
>> -		test_config gpg.program $TEST_DIRECTORY/t1016/gpg &&
>> +		git config gpg.program $TEST_DIRECTORY/t1016/gpg &&
>>  		echo "Hello World!" >hello &&
>>  		eval hello_${hash}_oid=$(git hash-object hello) &&
>>  		git update-index --add hello &&