On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 12:13, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> Great (and sorry for the delayed response).

No problem, I know it's not the most urgent bug ever :)

> So I think this is doing the right thing. I'm not sure if there's a
> better way to explain "dashless" or not.

I've updated the comments and renamed a few variables, see if that helps.

> Do you feel comfortable trying to add something to the test suite for
> this?

Um, sort of. I managed to recast my script into the framework of the
other tests (see attached t4299-octopus.sh); it seems like it should
go into t4202-log.sh, but it's not clear to me how I can do this
without breaking all the other tests which expect a certain sequence
of commits.