cvsps: use a different tiebreaker to avoid flaky test
After adding some sneaky debug printing[0], I determined that this
test flaked when a CVS commit containing two files starts too close to
the end of a second, thus putting file "a" in one second and "b/c" in
the following second. The secondary sort key meant that these changes
sorted in a different order when the timestamps were different than
they did when they matched. As far as I can tell, CVS walks through
the files in a stable order, so by sorting on the filenames in cvsps
we'll get stable output. It's fine for us to switch from sorting on
the branchpoint as a secondary key because this was already the point
when we didn't care, and we're just trying to break ties in a stable
way. It's unclear to be if having the branchpoint present matters
anymore, but it doesn't really hurt to leave it.
With this change in place, I was able to run test-convert-cvs over 650
times in a row without a failure. test-convert-cvcs-synthetic.t
appears to still be flaky, but I don't think it's *worse* than it was
before - just not better (I observed one flaky failure in 200 runs on
that test).
0: The helpful debug hack ended up being this, in case it's useful to
future flaky test assassins:
--- a/hgext/convert/cvsps.py
+++ b/hgext/convert/cvsps.py
@@ -854,6 +854,8 @@ def debugcvsps(ui, *args, **opts):
ui.write(('Branch: %s\n' % (cs.branch or 'HEAD')))
ui.write(('Tag%s: %s \n' % (['', 's'][len(cs.tags) > 1],
','.join(cs.tags) or '(none)')))
+ if cs.comment == 'ci1' and (cs.id == 6) == bool(cs.branchpoints):
+ ui.write('raw timestamp %r\n' % (cs.date,))
if cs.branchpoints:
ui.write(('Branchpoints: %s \n') %
', '.join(sorted(cs.branchpoints)))
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Am0
adding a
$ echo b > b
$ hg ci -Am1
adding b
$ hg tag -r0 default
warning: tag default conflicts with existing branch name
$ hg log
changeset: 2:30a83d1e4a1e
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added tag default for changeset f7b1eb17ad24
changeset: 1:925d80f479bb
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 1
changeset: 0:f7b1eb17ad24
tag: default
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 0
$ hg update 'tag(default)'
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 0:f7b1eb17ad24
tag: default
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: 0
$ hg update 'branch(default)'
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 2:30a83d1e4a1e
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added tag default for changeset f7b1eb17ad24
$ cd ..