Re: [PATCH] drop support for "experimental" loose objects

Jeff King wrote:

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 04:24:05PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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 t/t1013-loose-object-format.sh                     |  66 ------------------

Hmm, not all of these tests are about the "experimental" format.  Do
we really want to remove them all?

I think so. They were not all testing the experimental format, but they
were about making sure the is-it-experimental heuristic triggered
properly with various zlib settings.

Now that we do not apply that heuristic, there is nothing (in git) to
test. We feed the contents straight to zlib.

Ok, makes sense.

In principle the tests are still useful as futureproofing in case git
starts to sanity-check the objects as a way to notice corruption
earlier or something.  But in practice, that kind of futureproofing is
probably not worth the extra tests to maintain.

For what it's worth,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>