Re: t5505-remote fails on Windows

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:42:27PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> --- expect      Wed Mar 18 11:22:53 2009
> +++ output      Wed Mar 18 11:22:54 2009
> @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
>                  and with remote topic-c
>      rebase  rebases onto remote master
>    Local refs configured for 'git push':
> -    master pushes to master   (local out of date)
>      master pushes to upstream (create)
> +    master pushes to master   (local out of date)
>  * remote two
>    URL: ../two
>    HEAD branch (remote HEAD is ambiguous, may be one of the following):
> * FAIL 8: show
> 
> 
> As you can see, the entries for "master pushes to..." are reversed. It
> seems that this output is not stable. Before I delve into this, do you
> know whether there is some data structure involved that does not guarantee
> the order? Such as a hash table, a opendir/readdir sequence, or perhaps
> while reading the config file?

That is quite curious, because it is sorted immediately before printing:

  $ sed -n 1034,1040p builtin-remote.c
        for_each_string_list(add_push_to_show_info, &states.push, &info);
        sort_string_list(info.list);
        if (info.list->nr)
                printf("  Local ref%s configured for 'git push'%s:\n",
                        info.list->nr > 1 ? "s" : "",
                        no_query ? " (status not queried)" : "");
        for_each_string_list(show_push_info_item, info.list, &info);

can you step through in a debugger and make sure the sort_string_list is
actually sorting?

-Peff