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Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:34:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Taylor Blau Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Elijah Newren Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] t/helper: add 'test-tool bitmap write' subcommand In-Reply-To: (Taylor Blau's message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:29:03 -0400") References: Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:34:17 -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 Taylor Blau writes: > That's right, and to the point of your original question, I think a > better name is warranted here, perhaps: "test-tool bitmap write limits > bitmap selection" or something. Perhaps. Or "limits" -> "forces"? Neither verb exactly conveys that the outcome must be exactly the same as the input specifies, nothing added, nothing removed, so I dunno. > To the question of what it's testing, it's testing only its basic > functionality of altering the selection of which commits receive > bitmaps. In that sense I view it as a smoke test of that basic > functionality more than anything else. OK. Thanks.