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

From: Kévin Le Gouguec <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:41:17 +0100

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

> The second failure was with "make lisp/vc/vc-git-tests" in the test directory. I repeatedly ran that test, and it failed on the 20th execution as follows:

> Test vc-git-test-dir-branch-headers condition:
>     (error
>      "Failed (status 128): git --no-pager checkout -b feature/bar --track master .")
>    FAILED  2/8  vc-git-test-dir-branch-headers (0.316582 sec) at lisp/vc/vc-git-tests.el:146

Interesting.  I reproduced the 'checkout -b feature/foo master' failure
after 300 executions.

"status 128" confounds me a bit; tho there is a surprising (to me)
number of hits for "git exit 128" on the net.  Wondering if Git outputs
anything useful…

Anyhoo, no clue yet - just wanted to ACK (openSUSE Tumbleweed FWIW),
what with having authored that test.