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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fix occasional test failures in http tests

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 14, 2018, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20180614175650.GA15544@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20180614123107.11608-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 02:31:03PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
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> 't5561-http-backend.sh' is prone to occasional failures; luckily it's
> not 'git-http-backend's fault, but the test script is a bit racy.  I
> won't go into the details here, patch 4/4's commit message discusses
> it at length.  4/4 also fixes this issue, but I'm not particularly
> happy with that fix, the note attached to that patch explains why,
> along with possible alternatives, hence the RFC.
> 
> Even if we settle for a different fix, I think the first two patches
> are worthy cleanups on their own right.

Yes, the first two look like improvements on their own (and I left more detailed comments on the final one). Thanks for tackling this!

-Peff
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: SZEDER Gábor
Message 13 of 26 in “Fix occasional test failures in http tests”
  1. 0/4 Fix occasional test failures in http testsSZEDER Gábor, Jun 14, 2018
  2. 1/4 t5541: avoid empty line when truncating access logSZEDER Gábor, Jun 14, 2018
  3. 2/4 t/lib-httpd: add the strip_access_log() helper functionSZEDER Gábor, Jun 14, 2018
  4. 3/4 t/lib-httpd: add minor and patch version to $HTTPD_VERSIONSZEDER Gábor, Jun 14, 2018
  5. 4/4 t/lib-httpd: sort log based on timestamp to avoid occasional failureSZEDER Gábor, Jun 14, 2018
  6. SZEDER GáborJun 14, 2018
  7. Jeff KingJun 14, 2018
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2018
  9. Jeff KingJun 15, 2018
  10. SZEDER GáborJul 11, 2018
  11. Jeff KingJul 11, 2018
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2018
  13. Jeff KingJun 14, 2018
  14. 0/3 Fix occasional test failures in http testsSZEDER Gábor, Jul 11, 2018
  15. 1/3 t5541: avoid empty line when truncating access logSZEDER Gábor, Jul 11, 2018
  16. 2/3 t/lib-httpd: add the strip_access_log() helper functionSZEDER Gábor, Jul 11, 2018
  17. 3/3 t/lib-httpd: avoid occasional failures when checking access.logSZEDER Gábor, Jul 11, 2018
  18. Jeff KingJul 11, 2018
  19. SZEDER GáborJul 11, 2018
  20. Jeff KingJul 11, 2018
  21. Jeff KingJul 11, 2018
  22. 0/3 Fix occasional test failures in http testsSZEDER Gábor, Jul 12, 2018
  23. 1/3 t5541: clean up truncating access logSZEDER Gábor, Jul 12, 2018
  24. Jeff KingJul 12, 2018
  25. 2/3 t/lib-httpd: add the strip_access_log() helper functionSZEDER Gábor, Jul 12, 2018
  26. 3/3 t/lib-httpd: avoid occasional failures when checking access.logSZEDER Gábor, Jul 12, 2018

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