15 tests fail on Windows with GIX_TEST_IGNORE_ARCHIVES=1 about gitoxide

[EliahKagan]

While a number of changes have been made to the test suite, this issue holds up without modification: the same tests fail on Windows as before (and as shown above) when GIT_TEST_IGNORE_ARCHIVES=1, at c1d7c02.

The gix-ref-tests::refs packed::iter::performance test may depend on the speed of the test machine, but that was the case before. On my machine, it continues to take about the same amount of time (and fail for taking too long).

[EliahKagan]

As expected per #1358 (comment), the fixes for #1443 in #1444 have also made this test, originally reported as failing here, pass:

gix::gix object::tree::diff::track_rewrites::copies_in_entire_tree_by_similarity_with_limit

I have edited the description here accordingly, updating the title and summary list of failing tests, linking to a new gist with the current output of a full run, and also revising for clarity and adding some missing details.

[EliahKagan]

In view of the insight in #1442 that Git Bash MSYS2 behavior of ln -s creating copies rather than symlinks is behind the new failure (not listed above) of

gix-diff-tests::diff tree::changes::to_obtain_tree::many_different_states

when GIX_TEST_IGNORE_ARCHIVES=1, I was curious if causing it to actually create symlinks by setting MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict would change of the failing tests noted here to pass.

It causes one of the tests whose failure is noted here to pass:

gix::gix object::tree::diff::track_rewrites::copies_in_entire_tree_by_similarity_with_limit

The other failures here are unaffected.

It also causes 9 tests that had otherwise passed to fail, both with and without GIX_TEST_IGNORE_ARCHIVES=1. I've opened #1443 for that.