Re: What's not in 'master', and likely not to be in, until 1.5.4

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2008, 06:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4rv3ds5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801202114580.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>>  * marking output from "diff --{no,src,dst}-prefix" as a non-git
>>    diff (me)
>> 
>>    Linus had an objection but I think I made a reasonable
>>    argument against that.  Haven't heard back since then, so
>>    this is in limbo.
>
> I just didn'̈́t really care enough. I still don't think the prefix has 
> anything to do with git'ness, but at the same time it's just not something 
> I'll ever use, so..
>
>>  * various lstat(2) reduction changes (me, Linus and Dscho).
>> 
>>    This will be queued in 'pu'; it appears this introduces a
>>    timing related breakages in t75?? tests.
>
> Can you send some more info on this?

It's a Heisenbug. I actually merged it to 'next' but rewound it before pushing the result out after seeing a breakage.

"make clean test" to run everything through sometimes fails and immediately after that when I do "cd t && sh t75??-???.sh -i -v" it happily runs through the end.

I'll be back with more details when I have some.