Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] t4200: make "rerere gc" test more robust

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:46:48 -0700

The test blindly trusted that there may be _some_ entries left in
the rerere database, and used them by updating their timestamps to
see if the gc threshold variables are honoured correctly.  This
won't work if there is no entries in the database when the test
begins.

Instead, clear the rerere database, and populate it with a few known
entries (which are bogus, but for the purpose of testing "garbage
collection", it does not matter---we want to make sure we collect
old cruft, even if the files are corrupt rerere database entries),
and use them for the expiry test.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 t/t4200-rerere.sh | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t4200-rerere.sh b/t/t4200-rerere.sh
index 8f5f268baf..1e23031cdb 100755
--- a/t/t4200-rerere.sh
+++ b/t/t4200-rerere.sh
@@ -420,19 +420,28 @@ count_pre_post () {
 }
 
 test_expect_success 'rerere gc' '
-	find .git/rr-cache -type f >original &&
-	xargs test-chmtime -172800 <original &&
+	rm -fr .git/rr-cache &&
+	rr=.git/rr-cache/$_z40 &&
+	mkdir -p "$rr" &&
+	>"$rr/preimage" &&
+	>"$rr/postimage" &&
+
+	two_days_ago=$((-2*86400)) &&
+	test-chmtime =$two_days_ago "$rr/preimage" &&
+	test-chmtime =$two_days_ago "$rr/postimage" &&
+
+	find .git/rr-cache -type f | sort >original &&
 
 	git -c gc.rerereresolved=5 -c gc.rerereunresolved=5 rerere gc &&
-	find .git/rr-cache -type f >actual &&
+	find .git/rr-cache -type f | sort >actual &&
 	test_cmp original actual &&
 
 	git -c gc.rerereresolved=5 -c gc.rerereunresolved=0 rerere gc &&
-	find .git/rr-cache -type f >actual &&
+	find .git/rr-cache -type f | sort >actual &&
 	test_cmp original actual &&
 
 	git -c gc.rerereresolved=0 -c gc.rerereunresolved=0 rerere gc &&
-	find .git/rr-cache -type f >actual &&
+	find .git/rr-cache -type f | sort >actual &&
 	>expect &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
-- 
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