[PATCH v2 2/2] t7063: mtime-mangling instead of delays in untracked cache testing

["Tao Klerks via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>

The untracked cache test uses an avoid_racy function to deal with
an mtime-resolution challenge in testing: If an untracked cache
entry's mtime falls in the same second as the mtime of the index
the untracked cache was stored in, then it cannot be trusted.

Explicitly delaying tests is a simple effective strategy to
avoid these issues, but should be avoided where possible.

Switch from a delay-based strategy to instead backdating
all file changes using test-tool chmtime, where that is an
option, to shave 9 seconds off the test run time.

Don't update test cases that delay for other reasons, for now at
least (4 seconds).

Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
---
 t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh b/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
index a0c123b0a77..eae57dc78a6 100755
--- a/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
+++ b/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ sync_mtime () {
 	find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} + >/dev/null
 }
 
+chmtime_worktree_root () {
+	# chmtime doesnt handle relative paths on windows, so need
+	# to "hardcode" a reference to the worktree folder name.
+	test-tool -C .. chmtime $1 worktree
+}
+
 avoid_racy() {
 	sleep 1
 }
@@ -90,6 +96,9 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	cd worktree &&
 	mkdir done dtwo dthree &&
 	touch one two three done/one dtwo/two dthree/three &&
+	test-tool chmtime =-300 one two three done/one dtwo/two dthree/three &&
+	test-tool chmtime =-300 done dtwo dthree &&
+	chmtime_worktree_root =-300 &&
 	git add one two done/one &&
 	: >.git/info/exclude &&
 	git update-index --untracked-cache &&
@@ -142,7 +151,6 @@ two
 EOF
 
 test_expect_success 'status first time (empty cache)' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../actual &&
@@ -166,7 +174,6 @@ test_expect_success 'untracked cache after first status' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'status second time (fully populated cache)' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../actual &&
@@ -190,8 +197,8 @@ test_expect_success 'untracked cache after second status' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'modify in root directory, one dir invalidation' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	: >four &&
+	test-tool chmtime =-240 four &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../actual &&
@@ -241,7 +248,6 @@ EOF
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'new .gitignore invalidates recursively' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	echo four >.gitignore &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
@@ -292,7 +298,6 @@ EOF
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'new info/exclude invalidates everything' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	echo three >>.git/info/exclude &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
@@ -520,14 +525,14 @@ test_expect_success 'create/modify files, some of which are gitignored' '
 	echo three >done/three && # three is gitignored
 	echo four >done/four && # four is gitignored at a higher level
 	echo five >done/five && # five is not gitignored
-	echo test >base && #we need to ensure that the root dir is touched
-	rm base &&
+	test-tool chmtime =-180 done/two done/three done/four done/five done &&
+	# we need to ensure that the root dir is touched (in the past);
+	chmtime_worktree_root =-180 &&
 	sync_mtime
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'test sparse status with untracked cache' '
 	: >../trace.output &&
-	avoid_racy &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../status.actual &&
 	iuc status --porcelain >../status.iuc &&
@@ -570,7 +575,6 @@ EOF
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'test sparse status again with untracked cache' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../status.actual &&
@@ -597,11 +601,11 @@ EOF
 test_expect_success 'set up for test of subdir and sparse checkouts' '
 	mkdir done/sub &&
 	mkdir done/sub/sub &&
-	echo "sub" > done/sub/sub/file
+	echo "sub" > done/sub/sub/file &&
+	test-tool chmtime =-120 done/sub/sub/file done/sub/sub done/sub done
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'test sparse status with untracked cache and subdir' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../status.actual &&
@@ -651,7 +655,6 @@ EOF
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'test sparse status again with untracked cache and subdir' '
-	avoid_racy &&
 	: >../trace.output &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \
 	git status --porcelain >../status.actual &&
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