Re: [GSoC PATCH v9 3/5] repo: add the field layout.bare

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM Lucas Seiki Oshiro
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I also care about future-proofing, though.  When Git is built with
WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES=YesPlease, this test would break as the
default reference backend will be reftable in that alternate world,
wouldn't it?

To be honest, it wouldn't matter what are the keys selected for
testing this behavior. I'm only using references.format because it
was the first that I implemented. But given that, I can also change
their order to something like:

[1/5] repo: declare the repo command
[2/5] repo: add the field layout.bare
[3/5] repo: add the field layout.shallow
[2/5] repo: add the field references.format
[5/5] repo: add the --format flag

This way, this tests could be placed in 3/5 and using layout.bare and
layout.shallow as keys.

I don't have a strong preference since I think you already
future-proofed the test by using `--ref-format=files` with the
git-init
invocation, but the above suggested patch order would work, as well,
and seems sufficiently reviewer-friendly.