test-lib-functions: add helper for trailing hash

It can be helpful to check that a file format with a trailing hash has a
specific hash in the final bytes of a written file. This is made more
apparent by recent changes that allow skipping the hash algorithm and
writing a null hash at the end of the file instead.

Add a new test_trailing_hash helper and use it in t1600 to verify that
index.skipHash=true really does skip the hash computation, since
'git fsck' does not actually verify the hash. This confirms that when
the config is disabled explicitly in a super project but enabled in a
submodule, then the use of repo_config_get_bool() loads config from the
correct repository in the case of 'git add'. There are other cases where
istate->repo is NULL and thus this config is loaded instead from
the_repository, but that's due to many different code paths initializing
index_state structs in their own way.

Keep the 'git fsck' call to ensure that any potential future change to
check the index hash does not cause an error in this case.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 796093a7b3..60308843f8 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -1875,3 +1875,11 @@ test_cmp_config_output () {
 	sort config-actual >sorted-actual &&
 	test_cmp sorted-expect sorted-actual
 }
+
+# Given a filename, extract its trailing hash as a hex string
+test_trailing_hash () {
+	local file="$1" &&
+	tail -c $(test_oid rawsz) "$file" |
+		test-tool hexdump |
+		sed "s/ //g"
+}