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

Ralph Böhme slow at samba.org
Mon Jun 5 10:43:10 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 11:24:28AM +1200, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> 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.

thanks!

And here is me making use of it:
<https://git.samba.org/?p=slow/samba.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/odx>

Cheerio!
-slow



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