Re: CI: 'seen' minus a few passes tests, eh, almost

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 26, 2021, 05:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzgwiawm4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcztecuy7.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> It is sad that the tip of 'seen' rarely passes all tests these days.
>
> I excluded a few topics (chosen primarily by prejudice after looking
> at which tests failed earlier, without locating exactly where and
> why they fail) from 'seen' and the exclusion of them seems to have
> made 'seen' finally pass the tests, eh, almost [*1*].
> ...
> Excluded are:
>
>   ab/fsck-unexpected-type
>   hn/reftable
>   hn/refs-errno-cleanup
>   zh/ref-filter-raw-data
>
> ...
> [Footnote]
>
> *1* Except for "git repack" segfaults only in one of the tests:
>
>   https://github.com/git/git/runs/2669668815?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:2846

Just with a hunch, I further excluded tb/multi-pack-bitmaps from 'seen', in addition to these four topics. It seems to pass the whole test suite on both 32- and 64-bit build combinations.

    https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/877225207

Except that vs-build sometimes fails to download the sdk, that is.