Never delete tests to get green: exact-fingerprint exceptions
TL;DR In July I wrote about a test-deletion sentinel: CI hard-fails if a merge request deletes tests, unless the commit message carries a [test-refactor] tag and an issue number. I was pleased with it. It turns out a tag in a commit message is a bypass that an agent (or I, on a bad day) can write in one line, and it excused every test change in the MR, not just the one I meant. ...