t5503: simplify setup of test which exercises failure of backfill

pks-t · gitster · commit de004e848a95 · 2022-03-03T14:41:27.000-08:00
In the testcase to exercise backfilling of tags for fetches we evoke a
failure of the backfilling mechanism by creating a reference that later
on causes a D/F conflict. Because the assumption was that git-fetch(1)
would notice the D/F conflict early on this conflicting reference was
created via the reference-transaction hook just when we were about to
write the backfilled tag. As it turns out though this is not the case,
and the fetch fails in the same way when we create the conflicting ref
up front.

Simplify the test setup creating the reference up front, which allows us
to get rid of the hook script.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/t/t5503-tagfollow.sh b/t/t5503-tagfollow.sh
@@ -212,21 +212,11 @@ test_expect_success 'atomic fetch with backfill should use single transaction' '
 test_expect_success 'backfill failure causes command to fail' '
 	git init clone5 &&
 
-	write_script clone5/.git/hooks/reference-transaction <<-EOF &&
-		while read oldrev newrev reference
-		do
-			if test "\$reference" = refs/tags/tag1
-			then
-				# Create a nested tag below the actual tag we
-				# wanted to write, which causes a D/F conflict
-				# later when we want to commit refs/tags/tag1.
-				# We cannot just `exit 1` here given that this
-				# would cause us to die immediately.
-				git update-ref refs/tags/tag1/nested $B
-				exit \$!
-			fi
-		done
-	EOF
+	# Create a tag that is nested below the tag we are about to fetch via
+	# the backfill mechanism. This causes a D/F conflict when backfilling
+	# and should thus cause the command to fail.
+	empty_blob=$(git -C clone5 hash-object -w --stdin </dev/null) &&
+	git -C clone5 update-ref refs/tags/tag1/nested $empty_blob &&
 
 	test_must_fail git -C clone5 fetch .. $B:refs/heads/something &&
 	test $B = $(git -C clone5 rev-parse --verify refs/heads/something) &&
