On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:53:24PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > This is the second attempt to fix the racy split index problem, which > > causes occasional failures in several random test scripts when run > > with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes'. The important details are in patches > > 1 and 5 (corresponding to v1's 3 and 5). > > Thanks. I'm running the same sorts of tests I noted in > https://public-inbox.org/git/87va7ireuu.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ on > this. The fix Jeff had that you noted in > https://public-inbox.org/git/20180906151439.GA8016@localhost/ is now in > "master". > > I take it your > https://github.com/szeder/git/commits/racy-split-index-fix is the same > as this submission? Yes. > Anyway, I'm testing that cherry-picked on top of the > latest master. > > Unfortunate that we couldn't get the isolated test you made in > https://public-inbox.org/git/20180907034942.GA10370@localhost/ Nah, that's not an isolated test case, that's only a somewhat narrowed-down, but rather reliable reproduction recipe while I still had no idea what was going on :) The _real_ isolated test is the last test in t1701, that's what it eventually boiled down to. > but I > don't see how it could be added without some very liberal > getenv("GIT_TEST_blahblah"), so it's probably best to not add it, > particularly with the C rewrite of git-stash in-flight. > > I'll report back when I have enough test data to say how these patches > affect the intermittent test failures under GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes.
