RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.26.0 - Test Results NonStop Platform

> To: 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>; 'git@vger.kernel.org'
> <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: 'git-packagers@googlegroups.com' <git-packagers@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.26.0 - Test Results NonStop Platform
> 
> On March 22, 2020 9:10 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > The latest feature release Git v2.26.0 is now available at the usual
> > places.  It is comprised of 504 non-merge commits since v2.25.0,
> > contributed by 64 people, 12 of which are new faces.
> 
> We had t0301 fail again. This is run entirely within bash as we gave up on ksh.
> I need some advice on what to do here. It does look like this is actually in git
> rather than the tests, based on below.
> 
> What is really strange is that the subtests are transiently failing and not the
> same test each time. I cannot get any consistency during test runs. I also do
> not see anything in the differences that might account for this, unless
> somehow the unicode length. I did revert and retried the test, which also
> resulted in transient failures. It all works fine when I use -x, so I can't shed
> light on it from there. An example of the failure is:
> 
> --- expect-stdout       2020-03-23 20:40:57 +0000
> +++ stdout      2020-03-23 20:40:58 +0000
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>  protocol=https
>  host=example.com
> -username=askpass-username
> -password=askpass-password
> +username=store-user
> +password=store-pass
> not ok 21 - helper (cache) can forget host
> 
> We also had a hang in subtest 23 at
> 
> expecting success of 0301.23 'helper (cache) can forget user':
>                 check reject $HELPER <<-\EOF &&
>                 protocol=https
>                 host=example.com
>                 username=user1
>                 EOF
>                 check fill $HELPER <<-\EOF
>                 protocol=https
>                 host=example.com
>                 username=user1
>                 --
>                 protocol=https
>                 host=example.com
>                 username=user1
>                 password=askpass-password
>                 --
>                 askpass: Password for 'https://user1@example.com':
>                 EOF
> 
> ++ check reject cache
> ++ credential_opts=
> ++ credential_cmd=reject
> ++ shift
> ++ for arg in "$@"
> ++ credential_opts=' -c credential.helper='\''cache'\'''
> ++ read_chunk
> ++ read line
> ++ case "$line" in
> ++ echo protocol=https
> ++ read line
> ++ case "$line" in
> ++ echo host=example.com
> ++ read line
> ++ case "$line" in
> ++ echo username=user1
> ++ read line
> ++ read_chunk
> ++ read line
> ++ read_chunk
> ++ read line
> ++ eval 'git  -c credential.helper='\''cache'\'' credential reject <stdin >stdout
> 2>stderr'
> +++ git -c credential.helper=cache credential reject