From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:41:00 GMT
Subject: Re: t0025 flaky on OSX
Message-ID: <3AF5FF19-F0C6-43D2-85F6-7716CF22FA6B@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <72445da2-04eb-5d51-42f6-7e7fce4d4843@web.de>


> On 26 Apr 2017, at 06:12, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> So all in all it seams as if there is a very old race condition here,
>>> which we "never" have seen yet.
>>> Moving the file to a different inode number fixes the test case,
>>> Git doesn't treat it as unchanged any more.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for investigating this! Would you mind posting the
>> fix as patch?
> 
> That's ongoing.
> TC #3 and #4 are fixable, but #5 resists to be cured so far.
> I think we need a touch and sleep or so, more the next days (or weeks)

Cool! Actually #3 seems to cause most of the trouble.
Therefore I think a patch for #3 and #4 would already be valuable!

Thanks,
Lars