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Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:49:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 21d5429e (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:49:06 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Ramsay Jones Cc: GIT Mailing-list , Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] t0610-reftable-basics: mitigate a flaky test on cygwin Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 05:10:46PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > On 19/01/2026 6:50 am, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 08:39:56PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> In order to fix this flaky test on cygwin, despite not knowing why it > >> works, replace the shell redirection with the above 'test-tool truncate' > >> invocation. > >> > >> Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt > > > > Oh, so is this the exact case that we were talking about? If so, it > > might make sense to link to the mail thread so that folks can also read > > a bit into our discussion around this. > > Indeed! I thought about referencing the email thread, but I decided that it > didn't really offer any more supporting evidence than the commit message > (in fact less - it doesn't mention the 'strace' scan). > > I can add that (again [1]), if you think it's worth it, but I just re-read > the email thread and I'm not convinced it offers much extra value. So, I would > rather not re-roll, but I will if you think it worth it. Let me know. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/f22c95ad-43c8-41de-8315-e707224e830b@ramsayjones.plus.com/ Fair enough, let's just keep it as-is. Thanks! Patrick