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