Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> there is a race somewhere in these 'git-mv: Keep moved index entries
> inact' changes.
> 
> The test cases 'git mv should overwrite symlink to a file' or 'git mv
> should overwrite file with a symlink' fail occasionaly.  It's quite
> non-deterministic:  I have run t7001-mv.sh in a loop (see below) and
> one or the other usually fails around 50 runs (but sometimes only
> after 150).  Adding some tracing echos to the tests shows that both
> tests fail when running 'git diff-files' at the end.

To make it more convenient to test: with this patch it fails all the time:

-- snipsnap --

 t/t7001-mv.sh |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t7001-mv.sh b/t/t7001-mv.sh
index b0fa407..6699abd 100755
--- a/t/t7001-mv.sh
+++ b/t/t7001-mv.sh
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ test_expect_success 'git mv should overwrite symlink to a file' '
 	echo 1 >moved &&
 	ln -s moved symlink &&
 	git add moved symlink &&
+	sleep 1 &&
 	test_must_fail git mv moved symlink &&
 	git mv -f moved symlink &&
 	! test -e moved &&