[RFC] war on "sleep" in tests

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Apr 7, 2010, 00:08 UTC

Message-ID

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 - I do not simply see the point of the one in t3500.  It may be making
   sure that the timestamp order of commits generated during the test is
   stable, in which case test_tick is the right ingredient to use without
   wasting tester's time.

 - The one in t4011 is to make sure that the plumbing diff-index notices
   the stat-dirtyness of a removed then identically recreated symlink.
   Keeping the old symlink around to make sure that a newly created
   symlink gets different ino would be sufficient for that purpose.

 - The one in t7600 is to make sure that "git merge" does not get confused
   by stat-dirty "file" in the working tree.  Again, keeping the old file
   around and creating an identical copy to ensure a different ino would
   be sufficient for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

 t/t3500-cherry.sh       |    5 ++++-
 t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh |    5 ++---
 t/t7600-merge.sh        |    3 +--
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t3500-cherry.sh b/t/t3500-cherry.sh
index dadbbc2..f038f34 100755
--- a/t/t3500-cherry.sh
+++ b/t/t3500-cherry.sh
@@ -17,17 +17,19 @@ test_expect_success \
     'prepare repository with topic branch, and check cherry finds the 2 patches from there' \
     'echo First > A &&
      git update-index --add A &&
+     test_tick &&
      git commit -m "Add A." &&
 
      git checkout -b my-topic-branch &&
 
      echo Second > B &&
      git update-index --add B &&
+     test_tick &&
      git commit -m "Add B." &&
 
-     sleep 2 &&
      echo AnotherSecond > C &&
      git update-index --add C &&
+     test_tick &&
      git commit -m "Add C." &&
 
      git checkout -f master &&
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ test_expect_success \
 
      echo Third >> A &&
      git update-index A &&
+     test_tick &&
      git commit -m "Modify A." &&
 
      expr "$(echo $(git cherry master my-topic-branch) )" : "+ [^ ]* + .*"
diff --git a/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh b/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh
index d7e327c..e12fbea 100755
--- a/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh
+++ b/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ EOF
 
 test_expect_success \
     'diff removed symlink' \
-    'rm frotz &&
+    'mv frotz frotz2 &&
     git diff-index -M -p $tree > current &&
     compare_diff_patch current expected'
 
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ EOF
 
 test_expect_success \
     'diff identical, but newly created symlink' \
-    'sleep 3 &&
-    ln -s xyzzy frotz &&
+    'ln -s xyzzy frotz &&
     git diff-index -M -p $tree > current &&
     compare_diff_patch current expected'
 
diff --git a/t/t7600-merge.sh b/t/t7600-merge.sh
index 57f6d2b..cde8390 100755
--- a/t/t7600-merge.sh
+++ b/t/t7600-merge.sh
@@ -554,8 +554,7 @@ test_debug 'gitk --all'
 
 test_expect_success 'refresh the index before merging' '
 	git reset --hard c1 &&
-	sleep 1 &&
-	touch file &&
+	cp file file.n && mv -f file.n file &&
 	git merge c3
 '