Re: [PATCH v2] mv: refresh stat info for moved entry

> Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:
> 
>>> Note that the test added in 't7001-mv.sh' requires a "sleep 1" to ensure the
>>> 'ctime' of the file creation will be definitively older than the 'ctime' of
>>> the renamed file in 'git mv'.
>>
>> Unfortunate that this is necessary, but it seems to be the only way
>> to handle this because of the interaction with the system clock and
>> the filesystem. There are several sleeps like this in
>> t1701-racy-split-index.sh, for example.
> 
> Does "test-tool chmtime" to tweak the filesystem timestamp help?  I
> didn't look at the specific step that uses sleep to work around.