Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] Index-v5

Thomas Gummerer [off-list ref] writes:

What I currently did is add a environment variable GIT_INDEX_VERSION
that is used only if there is no index yet, to make sure existing
repositories aren't affected and still have to be converted explicitly
by using git update-index.

For the tests I simply did export GIT_INDEX_VERSION in test-lib.sh to
allow the addition of GIT_INDEX_VERSION in config.mak.  Should I rename
that to GIT_INDEX_VERSION_TEST and do something like

set_index_version() {
        export GIT_INDEX_VERSION=$GIT_INDEX_VERSION_TEST
}

in test-lib-functions.sh instead, does that make sense?

Mostly Yes ;-).  You have to write it in a valid POSIX shell, i.e.

	set_index_version () {
		GIT_INDEX_VERSION=$TEST_GIT_INDEX_VERSION
                export GIT_INDEX_VERSION
	}