From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:59:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsexportcommit can't commit files which have been removed from CVS
Message-ID: <200906120859.33139.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlcehfbd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

torsdag 11 juni 2009 19:04:54 skrev Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Nick Woolley <nickwoolley@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> >> Mike Ralphson wrote:
> >>> cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for ` space'
> >>> cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
> >>> * FAIL 15: re-commit a removed filename which remains in CVS attic
> >>> * failed 1 among 15 test(s)
> > But it does seem to be repeatable; I wouldn't rule out a race condition.
> 
> Ehh, sorry, it "does not" seem to be repeatable.  Sometimes and only
> sometimes it fails...

CVS har a timestamp in CVS/Entries that has whole second resolution. In
addition it's built-in method for trying to work around the problem by sleeping
until the next second wraps around is flaky.  cvsexportcommit already has
one sleep for this. Maybe it's not enough.

-- robin