On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM Lucas Seiki Oshiro
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Since the documentation asserts that the emitted key/value lines will
be sorted lexicographically, can we also have a test that verifies
that behavior?

Since we agreed to return the values in the order they were requested,
I'll test that order instead:

Yep, sounds good.

test_expect_success 'the values are returned in the same order they were requested' '
        printf "references.format=files\nlayout.bare=false\n" >expected1 &&
        printf "layout.bare=false\nreferences.format=files\n" >expected2 &&
        git init --ref-format=files same-order &&
        git -C same-order repo info references.format layout.bare >actual1 &&
        git -C same-order repo info layout.bare references.format >actual2 &&
        test_cmp expected1 actual1 &&
        test_cmp expected2 actual2
'

Rather than the above, I think a more satisfactory and meaningful test would be:

    test_expect_success 'values returned in order requested' '
        cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
        layout.bare=false
        references.format=files
        layout.bare=false
        EOF
        git init --ref-format=files ordered &&
        git -C ordered repo info layout.bare references.format
layout.bare >actual &&
        test_cmp expect actual
    '