Re: [PATCH 0/2] Reduce explicit sleep calls in t7063 untracked cache tests

[Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>]

On 2/28/22 4:40 AM, Tao Klerks via GitGitGadget wrote:
> As noted in a recent proposed patch to t/t7519-status-fsmonitor.sh, a number
> of test cases in t\t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh explicitly sleep a
> second, in order to avoid the untracked cache content being invalidated by
> an mtime race condition.
> 
> Even though it's only 9 seconds of sleeping that can be straightforwardly
> replaced, it seems worth fixing if possible.
> 
> Replace sleep calls with backdating of filesystem changes, but first fix the
> test-tool chmtime functionality to work for directories in Windows.
> 
> I do have a question to the list here: Do mingw.c changes need to be
> upstreamed somewhere? I don't understand the exact relationship between this
> file and the MinGW project.
> 
> Tao Klerks (2):
>    t/helper/test-chmtime: update mingw to support chmtime on directories
>    t7063: mtime-mangling instead of delays in untracked cache testing
> 
>   compat/mingw.c                    | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh | 29 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>   2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 4c53a8c20f8984adb226293a3ffd7b88c3f4ac1a
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1166%2FTaoK%2Ftaok-untracked-cache-testing-remote-waits-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1166/TaoK/taok-untracked-cache-testing-remote-waits-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1166
> 

Thanks for working on this.  It would be nice to be able
to drop that commit (read: hack) from my fsmonitor series.

Jeff