Subject: Re: bug#76187: vc-git-test-dir-branch-headers failure on Fedora

From: Kévin Le Gouguec <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:39:44 +0100

Kévin Le Gouguec <[email-masked]> writes:

> Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On 2/11/25 12:43, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
>>> Another git process seems to be running in this repository,
>>
>> I guess the test won't work with "make -j check", since some other test might also be running git in that repository. If my guess is right, to fix this you can arrange for the test to run in a clone instead. Similarly for any other test that might want to alter that repository or its working files.
>
> The test does arrange to run in isolated directories, using
> ert-with-temp-directory:

(As a matter of fact, to reproduce this issue, I have been running

  while make -C test lisp/vc/vc-git-tests ; do continue ; done

so AFAIU 'make -j' cannot be a factor?)