Subject: Re: t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh test failure on next

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:50:00 -0400

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 18:05 +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> On 21.10.15 16:37, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> > Hi Junio,
> > 
> > While testing the next branch today, I had a test failure, viz:
> > 
> >     $ tail ntest-out-fail
> >     Test Summary Report
> >     -------------------
> >     t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh                  (Wstat: 256 Tests: 32 Failed: 22)
> 
> Does this patch help ?
> (Recently send & tested by David. I just copy & paste the diff)

My patch fixes one of the tests, but Ramsay has a zillion failures
(presumably because test 1 fails and most everything else follows from
that).

That test could fail if your clock were running fast and you had
1-second resolution timetamps on your filesystem and you were somewhat
unlucky.