Hi All; Since we've had some luck cleaning up intermittent test failures, I thought it would be nice if we could fix this one. We've seen it on the buildbot from time to time, and it's pretty easy to duplicate with make test-binaries && count=0 && while ./new; do count=$(( count + 1)) echo $count done FAIL Ignore files and directories specified in new.ignore (multiple occurrences) --- new.22.expected 2013-12-23 00:41:18.015910311 +0000 +++ new.22.output 2013-12-23 00:41:18.015910311 +0000 @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ (D) add_files_recursive, pass 1: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/one/two/ignored_file (D) add_files_recursive, pass 1: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/one/two/three/.git (D) add_files_recursive, pass 1: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/one/two/three/ignored_file -(D) add_files_recursive, pass 2: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/.git -(D) add_files_recursive, pass 2: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/.ignored_hidden_file -(D) add_files_recursive, pass 2: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/ignored_file (D) add_files_recursive, pass 2: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/one/ignored_file (D) add_files_recursive, pass 2: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/one/two/ignored_file (D) add_files_recursive, pass 2: explicitly ignoring /home/bremner/software/upstream/notmuch/test/tmp.new/mail/one/two/three/.git