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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2025-05-05T17:34:53Z"
+ content="""
+Does your test case reproduce the problem reliably, or only sometimes?
+
+Typically when git gets into this state it's an intermittent problem based
+on timing. I want to make sure the OsPath build flag is not a red herring
+before pursuing that.
+"""]]