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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master ed8b4e0: Prevent running vc-tests writing to ~/.bzr.log
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 16:52:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5lgpo7gxz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337byp8nc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 21 May 2017 17:49:27 +0300")


>> This is one big patch.

I don't think adding the same 7 lines to 4 functions is big,
nor something that should be split into more than one commit.

>> What's so important in disabling logging while running tests?
>
> Bazaar records everything it does on the ~/.bzr.log file.  I guess
> Glenn doesn't want the records from running the Emacs tests to bloat
> his log, as those logs are not really interesting.

Right.
I think running tests should not interact with HOME at all,
and certainly should not write there.
(Perhaps test/Makefile should export a temporary HOME,
but tests can still be run not via the Makefile.)



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-22 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20170521000029.791B421038@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-05-21  7:30   ` [Emacs-diffs] master ed8b4e0: Prevent running vc-tests writing to ~/.bzr.log Dmitry Gutov
2017-05-21 14:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-22 20:52       ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-05-22 21:02         ` Dmitry Gutov

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