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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shortening the git test suite
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:56:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po06qlqp.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2ko6pby.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:34:25 +0200")

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-02  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-30 19:34 shortening the git test suite Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-30 23:52 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-07-01 13:54 ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-05  9:28   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-02  4:56 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-07-02  8:39   ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-07-05  9:28     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-05  8:44 ` Chris Marusich
2018-07-05  9:21   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-06  9:46     ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-07-06 18:19     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-06 21:05       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-07  8:07         ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-07-07 16:44         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-07 21:37           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-08 22:41             ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-09  7:47               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-11 12:46           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-12  9:27           ` Chris Marusich
2018-07-08  1:29         ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-07-06 21:09     ` Automatic branch merging upon build completion Ludovic Courtès

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