Re: Failing tests

Michael Haggerty writes:

> On 03/12/2013 02:21 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> I've just checked out trunk@5419 and ran a `make check` before I start
>> looking at making some local changes for use with CVSNT.  Much to my
>> surprise three of the tests failed (log attached).  [...]
>> 
>> The tests that are failing are:
>> 
>>   XFAIL: run-tests.py 87: reveal a second bug that created a branch twice
>>   XFAIL: run-tests.py 129: optimal tag after deleting files
>>   XFAIL: run-tests.py 163: check adding .cvsignore to an existing branch
>> 
>> Is this a known problem?  Any idea what might be wrong (and how to fix
>> it)?
>
> "XFAIL" means "expected failure".  These are minor known problems in
> cvs2svn that nobody has gotten around to fixing/improving.
>
> You don't need to worry unless you see "FAIL" (unexpected failure) or to
> a lesser extent "XPASS" (test expected to fail passed unexpectedly).

Thanks for the clarification.
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