Test breakage [Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.2]

[Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>]

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 06.07.2008 07:34:
> The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.6.2 are available at the usual
> places:
...

On Kubuntu 7.10 (not my choice, this is at work...), "make test" gives:

*** t9600-cvsimport.sh ***
*   ok 1: setup cvsroot
*   ok 2: setup a cvs module
*   ok 3: import a trivial module
*   ok 4: pack refs
*   ok 5: update cvs module
* FAIL 6: update git module


                 cd module-git &&
                 git cvsimport -a -z 0 module &&
                 git merge origin &&
                 cd .. &&
                 test_cmp module-cvs/o_fortuna module-git/o_fortuna


*   ok 7: update cvs module
*   ok 8: cvsimport.module config works
*   ok 9: import from a CVS working tree
* failed 1 among 9 test(s)

On the second (and subsequent) run, "make test" succeeds. I tried again 
with a fresh copy from the tarball, same effect: failure on 1, success 
on 2 and following.

This is with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, whereas with LANG=C the tests succeed the 
first time already. Are tests supposed to be done in C locale only? Do 
they reuse data from a previous test run? I didn't notice this with 1.5.6.1.

Michael