From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: shortening the git test suite Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: <87po06qlqp.fsf@netris.org> References: <87r2ko6pby.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZquI-0007Dc-OZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:57:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZquF-0003lY-NB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:57:46 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:59514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZquF-0003h0-Ge for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:57:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r2ko6pby.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:34:25 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus 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