for example: checkout $ time python scm_unittest.py -v GitSVNTest.test_apply_git_patch test_apply_git_patch (__main__.GitSVNTest) ... ERROR ====================================================================== ERROR: test_apply_git_patch (__main__.GitSVNTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "scm_unittest.py", line 917, in test_apply_git_patch Checkout(scm).apply_patch(patch) File "/Volumes/Src/src/c.wtot/src/third_party/WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/common/checkout/api.py", line 127, in apply_patch run_command(args, input=patch.contents()) File "/src/c.wtot/src/third_party/WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/common/system/executive.py", line 91, in run_command return Executive().run_command(*args, **kwargs) File "/src/c.wtot/src/third_party/WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/common/system/executive.py", line 292, in run_command close_fds=self._should_close_fds()) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1106, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 62] Too many levels of symbolic links ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 9.110s FAILED (errors=1) real 0m9.600s user 0m0.702s sys 0m1.020s checkout $ I think the way we're creating sym links is broken, because the WebKitTools/Scripts dir in the test repo is symlinked to itself. Haven't debugged further than this yet.
this is passing for me lately, so closing.