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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: t5800-*.sh: Intermittent test failures
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:35:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdFq_h+Hpv9perLTU2rbdT6oZ3kZy22t5nghJQeEjNGvunL+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxABCbKSi-aHezjyn5wJ0-BPW1PvvaC2i9VeV7yXOf4yCdx4Q@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 00:02, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 23:18, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 21:14, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> ... these hangs *are* the failures of which I speak!  Yes, the script
>>>> doesn't get to declare a failure, but AFAIAC a hanging test (and it
>>>> isn't the same test # each time) is a failing test. :-D
>>>
>>> Was there any outcome of this discussion? I'm asking because I
>>> can reproduce this very reliably on a little server here.
>>
>> I do remember this discussion and recall seeing _no_ outcome.
>>
>> I did see the hang myself once or twice but did not and do not have a
>> reliable reproduction. I have been waiting for somebody to raise the issue
>> again ;-).
>>
>
> I think I managed to bisect it (between 1.7.6 and 1.7.7):
>
> $ git bisect start v1.7.7 v1.7.6
> ...
> $ git bisect good
> a515ebe9f1ac9bc248c12a291dc008570de505ca is the first bad commit
> commit a515ebe9f1ac9bc248c12a291dc008570de505ca
> Author: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sat Jul 16 15:03:40 2011 +0200
>
>    transport-helper: implement marks location as capability
>
>    Now that the gitdir location is exported as an environment variable
>    this can be implemented elegantly without requiring any explicit
>    flushes nor an ad-hoc exchange of values.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
>    Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>
> :100644 100644 1ed7a5651ef5a2320c56856b5a1fe784e178ab23
> e9c832bfd3da7db771cc2113027d3e590dc51d59 M      git-remote-testgit.py
> :100644 100644 0cfc9ae9059ce121b567406d7941b71cd54b961c
> 74c3122df1835c45a6b621205fb18b4fc89af366 M      transport-helper.c
>
> Sadly, I'm going to be able to repeat the test in about 20 hours.

Ævar, this seems like something we could look at during the mini
GitTogether in Amsterdam this Saturday, no?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 18:30 t5800-*.sh: Intermittent test failures Ramsay Jones
2011-08-11 21:39 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-08-13 20:51   ` Ramsay Jones
2011-09-04 19:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-08 17:42     ` Ramsay Jones
2011-09-08 18:20       ` Jeff King
2011-09-11 19:14         ` Ramsay Jones
2011-11-01 21:57           ` Alex Riesen
2011-11-01 22:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-01 23:02               ` Alex Riesen
2011-11-02 23:35                 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2011-11-03  1:30                   ` Junio C Hamano

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