From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:50:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Intermittent failures in t9119
Message-ID: <7vwrnox1pi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <97465.53475.qm@web30008.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

"David D. Kilzer" <ddkilzer@kilzer.net> writes:

> The modification timestamp (mtime) for the two files should be in sync due to 
> this line in t9119-git-svn-info.sh in 'setup repository and import':
>
>         ptouch gitwc/file svnwc/file &&

Hmph.  One explanation that may make sense is that something else is
touching the file in the working tree after you run your ptouch script,
but I don't know what it is.

>> I  _think_ "svn info file" actually gives the timestamp of the revision
>> that  touched the file the last (in their linear worldview of the history),
>> so  perhaps this is demonstrating the real bug, but only when the test runs
>> very  slowly?
>
> What platform/OS is the test failing on?

An FC13 machine at k.org; I see 16 "Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz" in /proc/cpuinfo
output.