Merge branch 'nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime' into maint
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:55:30 +0000 (11:55 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:55:30 +0000 (11:55 -0700)
FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
behaviour of the fast-path.

* nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime:
t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature

t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
index a828a5f3b4b67c3f3241a8c7522b3b9307c809fa..4e1e290a9f4fd14ed40ac6f29987cd2af34537cd 100755 (executable)
@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ test_description='test untracked cache'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
+# On some filesystems (e.g. FreeBSD's ext2 and ufs) directory mtime
+# is updated lazily after contents in the directory changes, which
+# forces the untracked cache code to take the slow path.  A test
+# that wants to make sure that the fast path works correctly should
+# call this helper to make mtime of the containing directory in sync
+# with the reality before checking the fast path behaviour.
+#
+# See <20160803174522.5571-1-pclouds@gmail.com> if you want to know
+# more.
+
+sync_mtime () {
+       find . -type d -ls >/dev/null
+}
+
 avoid_racy() {
        sleep 1
 }
@@ -416,7 +430,8 @@ test_expect_success 'create/modify files, some of which are gitignored' '
        echo four >done/four && # four is gitignored at a higher level
        echo five >done/five && # five is not gitignored
        echo test >base && #we need to ensure that the root dir is touched
-       rm base
+       rm base &&
+       sync_mtime
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'test sparse status with untracked cache' '