Merge pull request #4541 from sylvestre/intermittent

CI: Also ignore intermittent when starting to pass

.github/workflows/GnuTests.yml

@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ jobs:
         REPO_DEFAULT_BRANCH='${{ steps.vars.outputs.repo_default_branch }}'
         # https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/4294
         # https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/4295
-        IGNORE_INTERMITTENT='tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate tests/misc/timeout tests/rm/rm1'
+        IGNORE_INTERMITTENT='.github/workflows/ignore-intermittent.txt'
 
         mkdir -p ${{ steps.vars.outputs.path_reference }}
 
@@ -226,9 +226,17 @@ jobs:
           for LINE in ${REF_FAILING}
           do
             if ! grep -Fxq ${LINE}<<<"${NEW_FAILING}"; then
-              MSG="Congrats! The gnu test ${LINE} is no longer failing!"
-              echo "::warning ::$MSG"
-              echo $MSG >> ${COMMENT_LOG}
+              if ! grep ${LINE} ${IGNORE_INTERMITTENT}
+              then
+                MSG="Congrats! The gnu test ${LINE} is no longer failing!"
+                echo "::warning ::$MSG"
+                echo $MSG >> ${COMMENT_LOG}
+              else
+                MSG="Skipping an intermittent issue ${LINE}"
+                echo "::warning ::$MSG"
+                echo $MSG >> ${COMMENT_LOG}
+                echo ""
+              fi
             fi
           done
           for LINE in ${NEW_FAILING}

.github/workflows/ignore-intermittent.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate
+tests/misc/timeout
+tests/rm/rm1