From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:47:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make t4201-shortlog.sh test more robust
Message-ID: <xmqqr2t2alg2.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171112161132.au26ywjeeipxsor4@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> You're also really doing two things to fix the problem here, either one
> of which would have been sufficient: increasing the abbreviation size
> and using test_tick to get a deterministic run.
> ...
> Doing it once is enough to make the test deterministic, and for this
> particular case we don't actually care at all whether all of the commits
> have the exact same timestamp. So I think it's fine.

;-)