Hi Christian, I noticed the intermittent failure of t1700-split-index.sh (tests #17 and #18) yesterday. It failed in a full test-suite run, but would not fail when run by hand, until I ran it like so: $ cd t $ for i in `seq 100`; do > echo "== $i ==" > ./t1700-split-index.sh -i -v || break > done ... when it failed on the 82nd run! I only had a brief look in the trash directory, but I could see that the 'twelve' file did not exist, 'eleven' did exist and was in the index (well, git ls-files showed it), and that there were only two '.git/sharedindex.*' files and that their timestamps had not been changed. I can't devote any time to looking at this further tonight (it's 2-45am here, I'm off to bed!). Can you reproduce the problem, or is it just me? :) ATB, Ramsay Jones