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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:02:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sa7rr30.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180906024810.8074-5-szeder.dev@gmail.com>


On Thu, Sep 06 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> +# Create a file named as $1 with content read from stdin.
> +# Set the file's mtime to a few seconds in the past to avoid racy situations.
> +create_file () {

Nit: Would be easier to read in the future as
e.g. s/create_file/create_old_file/ or something like that. I.e. so you
can see at a glance from the tests themselves what this is doing.

>  test_expect_success 'modify original file, base index untouched' '
> -	echo modified >one &&
> +	echo modified |create_file one &&

Style nit: missing whitespace after "|", i.e. should be "echo modified |
create_file one".

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06  2:48 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Fix the racy split index problem SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06  2:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] t1700-split-index: drop unnecessary 'grep' SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06 21:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-08 13:50   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-06  2:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] t0090: disable GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX for the test checking split index SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06  8:03   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06  2:48 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] split index: add a test to demonstrate the racy split index problem SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06  2:48 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06  8:02   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-09-06  9:15     ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06  9:20       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06  2:48 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to split index SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06 10:26   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 12:26   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 15:14     ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-06 15:26       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 17:53         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-07  3:49           ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-09-10 22:12           ` Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu
2018-09-08 16:45   ` Duy Nguyen

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