Test results for v1.7.10 on cygwin

Hi Junio,

I had intended to run the complete test suite on cygwin before v1.7.10 was released, but just didn't find the time. (I don't run all the tests very often because it simply takes too long!)

Having found a spare evening, the results look like this:

    $ time $(GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t0061.3 t0070.3 t4130 t7400 t7406 t7407 t9010
    t9300' make test >test-out 2>&1)

    real    149m46.437s
    user    104m16.540s
    sys     50m52.053s
    $ 

Note that t9010 and t9300 have been added to the skipped test list since I last ran the full test on v1.7.8-rc2. These tests have passed before, but on this occasion they caused a hang (process deadlock). However, when running them from the command line they (mostly) complete successfully. I guess I'm not too surprised, given the unusual process plumbing used with svn-fe/fast-import.

[Note the time! :( This is 10m slower than v1.7.8-rc2. v1.6.0 was 47m. On Linux the time is about 13m and that includes all the svn and cvs tests (which the above does not)!]

The test failures in t7400, t7406 and t7407 are due to the use of $path in the i18n functions used in git-submodule.sh. I sent an RFC patch to fix this during the v1.7.8 rc period. I didn't get any comments at the time. I will be sending an updated version soon, without the RFC, since it also fixes t7400 on MinGW for me.

I have been including t4130 in the skipped test list for a couple of years. The test fails intermittently, due to a 'racy-git' issue. I haven't found time to fix this up, but it's not a big problem in practice.

[I don't remember what the remaining skipped tests are about, but again I have been skipping them for ages! Hmm, I remember that one of them should have the SANITY prerequisite applied because it fails on Linux if you run it as root.]

ATB, Ramsay Jones