Re: [PATCH] Make some commit hashes in tests reproducible

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I'm also skeptical how often we use system times anyway, because _any_
use of test_commit or test_tick in a script is enough to make all of the
subsequent commands deterministic. I'd be more inclined to let a
particular script say "I'm interested in random times". But then, I'd
think such a script would be better written to trigger its interesting
cases with a well-crafted set of deterministic times.

Yeah, the DEVELOPER=YesPlease was a tongue-in-cheek comment.  

Reproducibility would mean we see less test breakages due to
raciness, but I do not recall a case where digging into test
breakage due to raciness led to discovery of and fix to a real
breakage in Git itself, so it is probably a good thing.

Thanks.