Re: do people find t5504.8 flaky?

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Junio,

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I have been seeing occasional failures of t5504-fetch-receive-strict
> test on the cc/replace-graft-peel-tags topic, but it seems that the
> fork point of that topic from the mainline already fails the same
> step #8, only less frequently.

Sounds familiar. IIRC it fails on Azure Pipelines from time to time, most
often in linux-clang, less often in linux32. But I don't have hard data on
that, I am still trying to get a grip on making the CI builds more robust
without having to ask you to integrate azure-pipelines.yml changes into
*all* branches.

Currently, my idea is to have two different Azure Pipelines set up: one
that performs the continuous testing using azure-pipelines.yml on your
maint, master, next and pu (do you want jch, too?) [*1*], and one that has
a separate build definition and tries to work around many (all?) known
issues with existing branches, e.g. coping with the known SIGPIPE issues
in the git-daemon tests on macOS that *have* been addressed in master but
not in some of the other branches that are accumulated into pu [*2*]. This
latter build is *not* using azure-pipelines.yml, but a build definition
that is maintained directly in Azure Pipelines ("Visual Designer" is what
this feature is called in Azure Pipelines).

Ciao,
Dscho

Footnote *1*: https://dev.azure.com/gitgitgadget/git/_build?definitionId=6

Footnote *2*: https://dev.azure.com/gitgitgadget/git/_build?definitionId=4