Re: [PATCH v2] travis-ci: build documentation

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

On 29 Apr 2016, at 19:27, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:35:34AM +0200, larsxschneider@gmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>> +# The follow numbers need to be adjusted when new documentation is added.
>>>> +test_file_count html 233
>>>> +test_file_count xml 171
>>>> +test_file_count 1 152
>>> 
>>> This seems like it will be really flaky and a pain in the future. I'm
>>> not really sure what it's accomplishing, either. The earlier steps would
>>> complain if something failed to render, wouldn't they? At some point we
>>> have to have some faith in "make doc".
>> 
>> I agree. My proposal to check for a handful of generated files was just
>> because this extra paranoia was almost free (just 3 lines of code that
>> won't need particular maintenance).
>> 
>> In this case, I'm afraid the maintenance cost is much bigger than the
>> expected benefits.
> 
> So you proposed to check a handful files for its exact content?
> 
> This could be less of maintenance if we'd check with a "larger as" operator
> such as
> 
>    test_file_count_more_than html 200
> 
> using an arbitrary slightly smaller number.

Well, I was thinking about testing against something like 
$(find . -type f -name "git*.txt" | wc -l) but it the end
all of this is not really meaningful I think...

- Lars


> 
> 
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