bug#28966: git fails test suite

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> As of 62d48234e20c732ebefc1b4deb425f590b4241ca git fails at least one of
> its tests on my servers:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> not ok 185 - --contains and --no-contains work in a deep repo
> #
> #               >expect &&
> #               i=1 &&
> #               while test $i -lt 8000
> #               do
> #                       echo "commit refs/heads/master
> #       committer A U Thor <author@example.com> $((1000000000 + $i * 100)) +0200
> #       data <<EOF
> #       commit #$i
> #       EOF"
> #                       test $i = 1 && echo "from refs/heads/master^0"
> #                       i=$(($i + 1))
> #               done | git fast-import &&
> #               git checkout master &&
> #               git tag far-far-away HEAD^ &&
> #               run_with_limited_stack git tag --contains HEAD >actual &&
> #               test_cmp expect actual &&
> #               run_with_limited_stack git tag --no-contains HEAD >actual &&
> #               test_line_count "-gt" 10 actual
> #
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

"185" is very early in the test run, there could be similar cases
hiding as well.  Are you able to try and disable these tests?  If not,
I'll patch out at least this one in the next few days.

> The server has 1.5TB RAM and 192 cores.  I’ve tried to build git about 5
> times; some of these times I used “--cores=1” to force a sequential
> build, but the tests would still fail.

Odd that it fails sequentially as well.  It would be good to report this
upstream.

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