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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org,  Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail•com>,
	 Paul Tarjan <paul@paultarjan•com>,
	 Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] t7800: fix racy "difftool --dir-diff syncs worktree" test
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:34:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjyxyp0ky.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2149.v3.git.git.1767472809897.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget's message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:40:09 +0000")

"Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail•com> writes:

> On Windows, this is more likely to manifest because Git relies on
> inode changes as a fallback when other stat fields match, but Windows
> filesystems lack inodes.

"inode" -> "inode number" (or "ino" / "inum")?

I suspect the same issue would bite users on network file systems,
so while avoiding problematic scenarios in tests may improve the
pass rate of the tests, we may want to fix the underlying issue with
the difftool command for real in the longer term.

Regardless, will queue this updated patch.  Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-04  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-31 22:19 [PATCH] t7800: fix racy "difftool --dir-diff syncs worktree" test Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget
2026-01-01 14:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2026-01-01 18:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget
2026-01-01 22:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-03  9:39   ` Phillip Wood
2026-01-03 16:30     ` Paul Tarjan
2026-01-03 20:29       ` Johannes Schindelin
2026-01-04  2:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-03 20:40   ` [PATCH v3] " Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget
2026-01-04  2:34     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-01-05 10:33     ` Phillip Wood

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