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 test
$ cd test
$ hg unbundle "$TESTDIR/bundles/remote.hg"
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 9 changesets with 7 changes to 4 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg up tip
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd ..
$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
> echo
> mkdir test-"$i"
> hg --cwd test-"$i" init
> hg -R test push -r "$i" test-"$i"
> cd test-"$i"
> hg verify
> cd ..
> done
pushing to test-0
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions
pushing to test-1
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions
pushing to test-2
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions
pushing to test-3
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 4 changes to 1 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 4 changesets, 4 total revisions
pushing to test-4
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions
pushing to test-5
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions
pushing to test-6
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 5 changes to 2 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
2 files, 4 changesets, 5 total revisions
pushing to test-7
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 5 changesets with 6 changes to 3 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
3 files, 5 changesets, 6 total revisions
pushing to test-8
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 5 changesets with 5 changes to 2 files
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
2 files, 5 changesets, 5 total revisions
$ cd test-8
$ hg pull ../test-7
pulling from ../test-7
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4 changesets with 2 changes to 3 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
4 files, 9 changesets, 7 total revisions
$ cd ..