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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: shortening the git test suite
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G=C3=A1bor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018. j=C3=BA=
l. 2., H, 6:58):
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>
>> > git takes a very long time to build, because it has an extensive test
>> > suite.  Most of the time is spent in running the SVN interoperability
>> > tests, though, which are not really all that interesting for most uses
>> > of git.
>> >
>> > The Makefile says this:
>> >
>> >   # Define NO_SVN_TESTS if you want to skip time-consuming SVN
>> interoperability
>> >   # tests.  These tests take up a significant amount of the total test
>> time
>> >   # but are not needed unless you plan to talk to SVN repos.
>> >
>> > What do you think about disabling the SVN tests in the git package?
>>
>> My preference would be to keep the SVN tests enabled, but it's not
>> something I feel very strongly about.
>>
>>       Thanks,
>>         Mark
>>
>>
> Do we have a way to make running this SVN test suite optional? For example
> to run it only before release, or on demand?

No, and I would think that a mechanism to execute them optionally would
necessarily be a hack that undermines some of the guarantees that Guix
tries hard to provide.

--
Ricardo