From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:50:17 GMT
Subject: Re: v1.5.4 plans
Message-ID: <7vodcv7kw6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071212184022.GB28377@untitled>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> David:
>
> 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.