Re: git v2.13.0-rc0 test failures on cygwin

From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Date: Apr 28, 2017, 11:44 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+kUOanMdez0Gu1z=bULMm0vMnFx8p12nt-e7v5LvyAiLu_45Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bf7db655-d90f-e711-afc8-6565b71373d2@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On 23 April 2017 at 15:44, Ramsay Jones wrote:

> [Adam, if you are no longer the git package maintainer for cygwin, then
> please ignore this email and sorry for the noise!]

I am still the Cygwin Git package maintainer; I've been quiet of late because of personal health issues, but I'm now picking things back up again.

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> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t0301-credential-cache.sh                        (Wstat: 256 Tests: 29 Failed: 6)
>   Failed tests:  12, 24-28
>   Non-zero exit status: 1

Confirmed I'm seeing this on v2.13.0-rc1, and this passed in v2.12.2. `git bisect` tells me this failure was introduced by commit v2.12.0-267-g612c49e94, added by Devin Lehmacher (added to the CC list).

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> t8010-cat-file-filters.sh                        (Wstat: 256 Tests: 8 Failed: 1)
>   Failed test:  8
>   Non-zero exit status: 1
> Files=780, Tests=14700, 10398 wallclock secs ( 1.27 usr  0.78 sys + 1265.08 cusr 4076.38 csys = 5343.50 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:45: prove] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ramsay/git/t'
> make: *** [Makefile:2313: test] Error 2

I also see this failure; `git bisect` tells me it was introduced by v2.10.0-rc1-4-g321459439, added by Johannes Schindelin.

> I'm not sure how to proceed from here. (I don't know if it is even possible
> to 'downgrade' my cygwin installation in order to confirm that the current
> git-cat-file would work with the 2.7.0-1 version of the cygwin dll).

I believe (although I've never done it myself) you can get old versions of Cygwin packages via the Cygwin Time Machine at http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html.

I'm sufficiently over-committed at the moment that I'm unlikely to be able to spend time investigating these problems myself, but I'm happy to test patches &c on my local installation if that would be valuable.

Adam