From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: shortening the git test suite Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 10:39:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r2ko6pby.fsf@elephly.net> <87po06qlqp.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000c1fea90570002325" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZuN9-0001XR-OR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:39:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZuN8-0002Aq-Pb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:39:47 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c]:36682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZuN8-0002AW-JS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:39:46 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id h19-v6so2595664itf.1 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 01:39:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87po06qlqp.fsf@netris.org> 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: Mark H Weaver Cc: Guix-devel --000000000000c1fea90570002325 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mark H Weaver ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018. j=C3=BAl.= 2., H, 6:58): > 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 > > Do we have a way to make running this SVN test suite optional? For example to run it only before release, or on demand? --000000000000c1fea90570002325 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Mark H Weaver = <mhw@netris.org&= gt; ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018. j=C3=BAl. 2., H, 6:58):
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> git takes a very long time to build, because it has an extensive test<= br> > suite.=C2=A0 Most of the time is spent in running the SVN interoperabi= lity
> tests, though, which are not really all that interesting for most uses=
> of git.
>
> The Makefile says this:
>
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0# Define NO_SVN_TESTS if you want to skip time-consuming S= VN interoperability
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0# tests.=C2=A0 These tests take up a significant amount of= the total test time
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0# 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.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Thanks,
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Mark


Do we have a way to make running this = SVN test suite optional? For example to run it only before release, or on d= emand?=C2=A0
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