On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 07:42:07AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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Hmm, I hoped this would drop the time to run t7900 with --long, but it
takes about 1m40s both before and after your patch (vs ~6s without
--long). Just looking at the script, I'd guess that it's because the
subsequent repacks are mostly incremental or geometric, so they don't
need to write the big pack.

Oh well. It still seems like an obvious improvement, though, both in
terms of peak disk usage and avoiding unwanted surprises when more tests
are added later.

Yeah, the commit message is a bit hand-wavy there indeed. I think the
bigger argument here is that having a test that is marked as EXPENSIVE
and that may influence subsequent tests is just a bad idea.

Yes, very much agreed.

-Peff