t5516: fix test order flakiness
The 'fetch follows tags by default' test sorts using 'sort -k 4', but for-each-ref output only has 3 columns. This relies on sort treating records with fewer fields as having an empty fourth field, which may produce unstable results depending on locale. This appears to be an accident added in 3f763ddf28 (fetch: set remote/HEAD if it does not exist, 2024-11-22). Use 'sort -k 3' to match the actual number of columns in the output. Reviewed-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Derrick Stolee committed
May 19, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
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index 29e2f17608..ac8447f21e 100755
--- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ test_expect_success 'fetch follows tags by default' '
git for-each-ref >tmp1 &&
sed -n "p; s|refs/heads/main$|refs/remotes/origin/main|p" tmp1 |
sed -n "p; s|refs/heads/main$|refs/remotes/origin/HEAD|p" |
- sort -k 4 >../expect
+ sort -k 3 >../expect
) &&
test_when_finished "rm -rf dst" &&
git init dst &&