From: David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@kilzer.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:21:57 GMT
Subject: Re: v1.5.4 plans
Message-ID: <772829.29268.qm@web52407.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vodcv7kw6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > I also noticed some race-conditions on this test when running this on my
> > Centrino laptop (my fastest box, but I rarely use it for git
> > development) and having git on my USB thumb drive.  I'm pretty sure
> > these were caused by inconsistencies in handling timestamps on symlinks
> > vs timestamps on the files they link to.
> 
> I actually saw that for the first time on my primary box during the
> nightly rebuild last night.  I'll disable the test for now --- if we can
> spot and fix the race by the release, that's good, otherwise, shipping
> the test disabled is also fine, too.

I'll see if I can reproduce it and figure out where the race is happening.

Dave