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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] t3700: avoid racy git situation
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:34:13 +0100
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Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> Wow, the builtin commit is fast.  It sometimes triggers a racy
> situation in the test case for "git add --refresh -- foo".
> 
> So when that test fails, simply sleep one second and try again.

[/me looks at the calender - no, it's not April Fool's day]

Wouldn't it be better to fix git-commit (or git-add)? I would like to help, 
but you already seem to have done the analysis, so...

-- Hannes