From: Brian Gernhardt Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:11:59 GMT Subject: Intermittent Failures in t1450-fsck Message-ID: <115C364B-E910-4A9C-949E-3B10E5E6116C@silverinsanity.com> t1450-fsck fails in test 10 "tag pointing to something else than its type", but only if I run it as part of the full test suite (with either `make test` or `make prove`). If I run the test separately, it passes. The output from running with GIT_TEST_OPTS="-v" is: expecting success: sha=$(echo blob | git hash-object -w --stdin) && test_when_finished "remove_object $sha" && cat >wrong-tag <<-EOF && object $sha type commit tag wrong tagger T A Gger 1234567890 -0000 This is an invalid tag. EOF tag=$(git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin .git/refs/tags/wrong && test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/tags/wrong" && test_must_fail git fsck --tags 2>out && cat out && grep "error in tag.*broken links" out tagged commit 63499e4ea8e096b831515ceb1d5a7593e4d87ae5 (wrong) in 66f6581d549f70e05ca586bc2df5c15a95662c36 missing commit 63499e4ea8e096b831515ceb1d5a7593e4d87ae5 error: Object 63499e4ea8e096b831515ceb1d5a7593e4d87ae5 is a commit, not a blob error: 63499e4ea8e096b831515ceb1d5a7593e4d87ae5: object corrupt or missing not ok - 10 tag pointing to something else than its type