From: Jeff Hostetler Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:29:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Reduce explicit sleep calls in t7063 untracked cache tests Message-ID: <06511c93-3e40-a5d4-142c-cab81199e75e@jeffhostetler.com> In-Reply-To: On 2/28/22 4:40 AM, Tao Klerks via GitGitGadget wrote: > As noted in a recent proposed patch to t/t7519-status-fsmonitor.sh, a number > of test cases in t\t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh explicitly sleep a > second, in order to avoid the untracked cache content being invalidated by > an mtime race condition. > > Even though it's only 9 seconds of sleeping that can be straightforwardly > replaced, it seems worth fixing if possible. > > Replace sleep calls with backdating of filesystem changes, but first fix the > test-tool chmtime functionality to work for directories in Windows. > > I do have a question to the list here: Do mingw.c changes need to be > upstreamed somewhere? I don't understand the exact relationship between this > file and the MinGW project. > > Tao Klerks (2): > t/helper/test-chmtime: update mingw to support chmtime on directories > t7063: mtime-mangling instead of delays in untracked cache testing > > compat/mingw.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh | 29 ++++++++++++++++----------- > 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: 4c53a8c20f8984adb226293a3ffd7b88c3f4ac1a > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1166%2FTaoK%2Ftaok-untracked-cache-testing-remote-waits-v1 > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1166/TaoK/taok-untracked-cache-testing-remote-waits-v1 > Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1166 > Thanks for working on this. It would be nice to be able to drop that commit (read: hack) from my fsmonitor series. Jeff