On Wed, Sep 28 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

... I have no objection to adding more comments, but I am
happy enough without them (like Junio, it may be that I'm overly
familiar with how I expect our get_be() functions to handle alignment).
...
So it's mostly just a minor annoyance for running the tests; we're
probably better not to change any code, even trivially, this late in the
release cycle.

Yup.  I never planned to merge the topic to 'master'.  The finishing
touch I expected was to help Phillip and friends with a bit of
explanation in the log message, and then it would be ready to wait
in 'next' for the next cycle.

In the interim are we interested in a minimal patch to the specific
scalar test that's finding this under SANITIZE=undefined, as running
un-cleanly will be new in this release?