RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Steinhardt <redacted>
Sent: December 16, 2024 11:51 PM
To: rsbecker@nexbridge.com
Cc: 'Junio C Hamano' <redacted>; git@vger.kernel.org; 'Linux

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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 07:07:25PM -0500, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:

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On December 16, 2024 1:15 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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An early preview release Git v2.48.0-rc0 is now available for testing
at the usual places.  It is comprised of 446 non-merge commits since
v2.47.0, contributed by 66 people, 26 of which are new faces [*].

The tarballs are found at:

   https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the
'v2.48.0-rc0' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:

 url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
 url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
 url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
 url = https://github.com/gitster/git

Did I miss something about GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable being
removed from the test suite? That was available under 2.47.0 but if I
supply it now, the tests crash at git init.

Nothing should've changed here, and a local test run with that environment
variable works alright on my system. Could you please provide more details?

This is on the latest OS version of NonStop x86. The test is done via the
following:
With OpenSSL 3.4 The T0625 is Expat.

When run as follows:
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=true
/usr/coreutils/bin/make -k test V=1 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Winline
-I/usr/local-ssl3.4/include -I/usr/coreutils/include
-I/usr/tandem/xml/T0625L01_AAE/include" LDFLAGS="/usr/coreutils/lib/libz.a
-L/usr/local-ssl3.4/lib -L/usr/coreutils/lib
-L/usr/tandem/xml/T0625L01_AAE/lib"  TEST_LINT=
SHELL=/usr/coreutils/bin/bash

The results are:
*** t0000-basic.sh ***
error: cannot run git init
Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0000-basic.sh' failed
make[2]: *** [t0000-basic.sh] Error 1
*** t0001-init.sh ***
error: cannot run git init
Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0001-init.sh' failed
make[2]: *** [t0001-init.sh] Error 1
*** t0002-gitfile.sh ***
error: cannot run git init
Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0002-gitfile.sh' failed
make[2]: *** [t0002-gitfile.sh] Error 1
etc for all tests.

Removing GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable allows the whole
test suite to pass.

There are environment size limits (about 32Kb) in bash on the box, so it is
possible
a boundary was crossed internal to the test setup.