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From: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	"Brandon Williams" <bmwill@google.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] travis: run tests with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:21:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213232140.GE24597@hank> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvahbzn3c.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 12/12, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > The breakages wen the split-index code fails tend to break things in
> > much more obvious manners than a wrong message, usually git ends up
> > dying if it gets broken.  Both of the bugs that were fixed here would
> > have been caught with the change in my patch.
> >
> > But yeah I can see the argument that it doesn't give us a guarantee
> > that it catches all things the test suite could catch.
> 
> I think you misunderstood me.  When split index is much easier to
> break than poison tests, combining them together would hurt the test
> coverage of poison tests.  If you value poison tests much more than
> how well split index mode works, that is a worse outcome.

Sorry, indeed I misunderstood you.  I do agree with the above.

> >> I wonder if it makes more sense to update ci/run-tests.sh so that
> >> its final step is run twice with different settings, like so?
> >
> > I kind of wanted to avoid that, because it ends up running the test
> > suite twice on travis for every test, which seems a bit overkill.  But
> > I don't exactly how worried we are about cycles on travis (I don't
> > check it very often personally, so I don't really know).  If we aren't
> > worried about cycles what you have below would certainly make sense.
> 
> I think 64-bit gcc/clang builds tend to cost us about 10-20 minutes
> each, and 32-bit linux builds about 10 minutes or so.  I wonder if
> it makes sense to do the "run twice" for only one of 64-bit builds
> (perhaps the clang one, as I suspect 32-bit linux one uses gcc) and
> the 32-bit linux build, and nowhere else.

Yeah I'd be happy with something like that.  And I see there's some
more discussion about it in another part of the thread, will follow up
there.  Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-10 21:21 [PATCH 0/3] fixes for split index mode Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] repository: fix repo_read_index with submodules Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-11 18:54   ` Brandon Williams
2017-12-11 20:37     ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] prune: fix pruning with multiple worktrees and split index Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-11 19:09   ` Brandon Williams
2017-12-11 21:39     ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] travis: run tests with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-10 23:37   ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-11 21:09   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-12-11 21:42     ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-12 15:54       ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-12 19:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12 20:15           ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-12 20:51             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 23:21               ` Thomas Gummerer [this message]
2017-12-13 17:21           ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-13 17:38             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 17:46               ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-13 23:28                 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-17 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] fixes for split index mode Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-17 22:51   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] repository: fix repo_read_index with submodules Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-18 18:01     ` Brandon Williams
2017-12-18 23:05       ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-18 23:05         ` Brandon Williams
2017-12-17 22:51   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] prune: fix pruning with multiple worktrees and split index Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-18 18:19     ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-03 22:18       ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-04 19:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-17 22:51   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] travis: run tests with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-18 18:16     ` Lars Schneider
2018-01-04 20:13       ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-05 11:03         ` Lars Schneider
2018-01-07 20:02         ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-07 22:30   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] fixes for split index mode Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-07 22:30     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] read-cache: fix reading the shared index for other repos Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-08 10:41       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-08 22:41         ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-13 22:33           ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-08 23:38         ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-09  1:24           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-16 21:42       ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-17  0:16         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-17  0:32           ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-17 18:16           ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-01-18 10:19             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-19 21:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-20 11:58         ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-22  6:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-27 12:18             ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-02-07 22:41             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-07 22:30     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] split-index: don't write cache tree with null oid entries Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-07 22:30     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] travis: run tests with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-13 22:37     ` [PATCH v3 4/3] read-cache: don't try to write index if we can't write shared index Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-14  9:36       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-14 10:18         ` [PATCH 1/3] read-cache.c: change type of "temp" in write_shared_index() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-14 10:18           ` [PATCH 2/3] read-cache.c: move tempfile creation/cleanup out of write_shared_index Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-14 10:18           ` [PATCH 3/3] read-cache: don't write index twice if we can't write shared index Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 11:36             ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-18 12:47               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-18 13:29                 ` Jeff King
2018-01-18 13:36                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-18 15:00                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-18 21:37                       ` Jeff King
2018-01-18 22:32                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-19  0:30                           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-22 13:32                           ` [PATCH 0/5] Travis CI: don't run the test suite as root in the 32 bit Linux build SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-22 13:32                             ` [PATCH 1/5] travis-ci: use 'set -x' for the commands under 'su' " SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-22 13:32                             ` [PATCH 2/5] travis-ci: use 'set -e' in the 32 bit Linux build job SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-23 16:26                               ` Jeff King
2018-01-23 16:32                                 ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 12:12                                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-24 15:49                                   ` Jeff King
2018-01-22 13:32                             ` [PATCH 3/5] travis-ci: don't repeat the path of the cache directory SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-23 16:30                               ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 13:14                                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-22 13:32                             ` [PATCH 4/5] travis-ci: don't run the test suite as root in the 32 bit Linux build SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-23 16:43                               ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 13:45                                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-24 15:56                                   ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 18:01                                     ` Jeff King
2018-01-24 19:51                                       ` Jeff King
2018-01-22 13:32                             ` [PATCH 5/5] travis-ci: don't fail if user already exists on 32 bit Linux build job SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-23 16:46                               ` Jeff King
2018-01-24  0:32                                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-24 19:39                                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-22 18:27                 ` [PATCH 3/3] read-cache: don't write index twice if we can't write shared index SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-22 19:46                   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-01-22 22:10                     ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-24  9:11                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-26 22:44                   ` Lars Schneider
2018-01-14 14:29         ` [PATCH v3 4/3] read-cache: don't try to write index " Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-18 21:53     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] fixes for split index mode Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-19 18:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-19 21:11         ` Thomas Gummerer

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