Re: t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh test failure on next

From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Date: Oct 21, 2015, 17:50 UTC
Message-ID: <1445449800.8302.12.camel@twopensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <5627B7DD.3020909@web.de>

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 18:05 +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

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> On 21.10.15 16:37, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> > Hi Junio,
> > 
> > While testing the next branch today, I had a test failure, viz:
> > 
> >     $ tail ntest-out-fail
> >     Test Summary Report
> >     -------------------
> >     t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh                  (Wstat: 256 Tests: 32 Failed: 22)
> 
> Does this patch help ?
> (Recently send & tested by David. I just copy & paste the diff)

My patch fixes one of the tests, but Ramsay has a zillion failures (presumably because test 1 fails and most everything else follows from that).

That test could fail if your clock were running fast and you had 1-second resolution timetamps on your filesystem and you were somewhat unlucky.