On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 11:47:33AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > This is a case when an external stress script works better, as it can > > easily check commits in the past... if someone has such a script, > > that is. > > Heh, I literally just implemented this kind of max-count in my own > "stress" script[1] to handle this recent t0025 testing. So certainly I > think it is a good idea. As usual, I forgot my footnote. ;) It was: I've actually mostly given up my stress script in favor of --stress. I only used it here because of the bisection issue you mention. One other thing I've noticed with it: I forget to add my custom --root=/var/ram/git-tests when I invoke it, so my hard disk goes crazy (and the tests often run slower!). I'm not sure if there's a convenient fix. -Peff