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)))
#require killdaemons
Test wire protocol unbundle with hashed heads (capability: unbundlehash)
Create a remote repository.
$ hg init remote
$ hg serve -R remote --config web.push_ssl=False --config web.allow_push=* -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg1.pid -E error.log -A access.log
$ cat hg1.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
Clone the repository and push a change.
$ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT/ local
no changes found
updating to branch default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch local/README
$ hg ci -R local -A -m hoge
adding README
$ hg push -R local
pushing to http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
Ensure hashed heads format is used.
The hash here is always the same since the remote repository only has the null head.
$ cat access.log | grep unbundle
* - - [*] "POST /?cmd=unbundle HTTP/1.1" 200 - x-hgarg-1:heads=686173686564+6768033e216468247bd031a0a2d9876d79818f8f (glob)
Explicitly kill daemons to let the test exit on Windows
$ "$TESTDIR/killdaemons.py" $DAEMON_PIDS