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Fri, 4 Sep 2026 12:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Aleksei Sviridkin , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t3507: pin CHERRY_PICK_HEAD absence for a conflicting --no-commit In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:41:49 +0200") References: <20260903125524.67889-1-f@lex.la> <20260903214553.53942-1-f@lex.la> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:17:18 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > The question is whether it really makes sense to have tests for every > single edge case. In a perfect world we of course would, but in the real > world there are a) gazillions of different combinations and b) every > test brings its own overhead as it increases both wall time and > maintenance costs. Very true. There needs a very good justification to add overhead to protect what has been working fine for a long time ;-).