Subject: RE: t0025 flakey?

From: "Randall S. Becker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 13:00:43 -0500

On February 6, 2019 12:15, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> To: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>; Jeff King <[email-masked]>;
> [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: t0025 flakey?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi Gábor,
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 11:25:38AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > >
> > > > at first I thought that those intermittent test failures were
> > > > limited to Windows, but they are not: I can see it now in a build
> > > > on 32-bit Linux.
> > > > Full logs here:
> > > >
> > > > https://dev.azure.com/gitgitgadget/git/_build/results?buildId=1032
> > > > &_a=summary&view=ms.vss-test-web.build-test-results-tab
> > > >
> > > > Excerpt from the failing test case:
> > > >
> > > > -- snip --
> > > > not ok 2 - renormalize CRLF in repo  expecting success:
> > > > 	echo "*.txt text=auto" >.gitattributes &&
> > > > 	git add --renormalize "*.txt" &&
> > > > 	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> > > > 	i/lf w/crlf attr/text=auto CRLF.txt
> > > > 	i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto LF.txt
> > > > 	i/lf w/mixed attr/text=auto CRLF_mix_LF.txt
> > > > 	EOF
> > > > 	git ls-files --eol |
> > > > 	sed -e "s/	/ /g" -e "s/  */ /g" |
> > > > 	sort >actual &&
> > > > 	test_cmp expect actual
> > > >
> > > > + echo *.txt text=auto
> > > > + git add --renormalize *.txt
> > > > + cat
> > > > + sort
> > > > + sed -e s/	/ /g -e s/  */ /g
> > > > + git ls-files --eol
> > > > + test_cmp expect actual
> > > > + diff -u expect actual
> > > > --- expect	2019-02-06 09:39:42.080733629 +0000
> > > > +++ actual	2019-02-06 09:39:42.088733629 +0000
> > > > @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
> > > > -i/lf w/crlf attr/text=auto CRLF.txt
> > > > +i/crlf w/crlf attr/text=auto CRLF.txt
> > > >  i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto LF.txt
> > > > -i/lf w/mixed attr/text=auto CRLF_mix_LF.txt
> > > > +i/mixed w/mixed attr/text=auto CRLF_mix_LF.txt
> > > > error: last command exited with $?=1
> > > > -- snap --
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > I reported this and Peff looked into it on the way to Git Merge, but
> > > not working solution yet.
> > >
> > > https://public-inbox.org/git/[email-masked]
> > > .net/T/#u
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Dscho
> 
> I shortly looked into the pointers here - Is t0025 flaky after the fix
from Peff:
> 
> [PATCH] add: use separate ADD_CACHE_RENORMALIZE flag
> 
> Or has it always been shaky ?
> Does anybody know ?

The NonStop port has traditionally had issues with t0025, which we tended to
ignore because things did work. We wrote those off as bash issues in t0025
since they seemed to be corrected when we picked up a new bash version about
a year ago. I will keep monitoring this, particularly when 2.21 comes out.

Cheers,
Randall

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