[PATCH] reduce churn-induced conflicts in selftest/knownfail and flapping

[Douglas Bagnall]

I wrote:

>> I generally like the idea, but can we keep the existing selftest/knownfail file
>> in place and not move it into the knownfail.d directory? That would make it work
>> like all the other kids like cron handle this.
> 
> I think the attached version does that.
  ^^^^^^^

But actually it didn't work, because you need the directories to exist, and to make
the directories exist in git you need placeholders. So here's a version with README
placeholders.

Douglas

> It doesn't complicate the selftest code as much as I feared and I can see the
> benefit of not having to remember where knownfail moved to.
> 
> cheers,
> Douglas
> 
>>
>> Cheerio!
>> -slow
>>
> 

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