Re: [PATCH v3] t7800: fix racy "difftool --dir-diff syncs worktree" test

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2026, 02:34 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqjyxyp0ky.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2149.v3.git.git.1767472809897.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> On Windows, this is more likely to manifest because Git relies on
> inode changes as a fallback when other stat fields match, but Windows
> filesystems lack inodes.

"inode" -> "inode number" (or "ino" / "inum")?

I suspect the same issue would bite users on network file systems, so while avoiding problematic scenarios in tests may improve the pass rate of the tests, we may want to fix the underlying issue with the difftool command for real in the longer term.

Regardless, will queue this updated patch.  Thanks.