From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:44:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] t7063-status-untracked-cache flaky?
Message-ID: <1444938244.20887.6.camel@twopensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <326E1A8B-3612-4771-80B8-77346C0D762D@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 09:52 +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that "t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh" occasionally fails with "not ok 24 - test sparse status with untracked cache".
> 
> E.g. on OS X compiled with gcc:
> https://travis-ci.org/larsxschneider/git/jobs/85432514
> 
> E.g. on Linux compiled with gcc:
> https://travis-ci.org/larsxschneider/git/jobs/84986975
> 
> The test was added with commit 7687252. I have not really investigated the problem yet but the "avoid_racy" method caught my attention. Is this test known to be flaky? Would an increased sleep time in "avoid_racy" help?

I've never seen this test be flaky before your report.  I just tested
it, locally, though, and I can reproduce.  After 53 successes, it
failed.  Will investigate further.