From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:55:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] t0303: immediately bail out w/o GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER
Message-ID: <7vk42ml5er.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120315035405.GA4149@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:17:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This is probably not related to your patch, but
>> 
>> 	GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=cache sh t0303-*.sh
>> 
>> passes OK for me while
>> 
>> 	make GIT_TEST_CREDENTIAL_HELPER=cache T=t0303-*.sh prove
>> 
>> seems to get stuck forever.
>
> It's because t0303 is the generic "test any helper" script, and does not
> know how to clean up the credential-cache daemon. So the daemon sticks
> around, holding onto a file descriptor that causes prove to hang.

And the reason why "sh t0303-*.sh" version does not have this problem is...?