They've been unused since their introduction in commit
0083854b1204
("Copy test framework from Git").
# For emacsclient
unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR
-# Convenience
-#
-# A regexp to match 5 and 40 hexdigits
-_x05='[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]'
-_x40="$_x05$_x05$_x05$_x05$_x05$_x05$_x05$_x05"
-
-_x04='[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]'
-_x32="$_x04$_x04$_x04$_x04$_x04$_x04$_x04$_x04"
-
# Each test should start with something like this, after copyright notices:
#
# test_description='Description of this test...