From: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:59:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-p4: Fix copy detection test
Message-ID: <20150327235902.25ebf380@pt-vhugo>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq619mw04r.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> File file11 is copied from file2 and diff-tree correctly reports this file as
>> its the source, but the test expression was checking for file10 instead (which
>> was a file that also originated from file2). It is possible that the diff-tree
>> algorithm was updated in recent versions, which resulted in this mismatch in
>> behavior.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com>
>
>Pete, these tests blame to your 9b6513ac (git p4 test: split up big
>t9800 test, 2012-06-27).  I presume that you tested the result of
>this splitting, but do you happen to know if we did something to
>cause the test to break recently?

I also worked on these tests at that time and they were passing before and
after the reorganization. I'll prepare a bisect script and will try to find the
commit that started making this test fail.