Re: [PATCH v2] travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Lars Schneider
> <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> 1. use appveyor.com, as that is a Travis-like service for Windows. We do our
> >>   windows-builds in the curl project using that.
> >
> > The Git for Windows build and tests are *really* resources intensive and they
> > take a lot of setup time. AFAIK we would run into timeouts with AppVeyor.
> > Maybe Sebastian or Dscho know details?
> 
> At lot of setup time, in terms of installing the Git for Windows SDK,
> could probably be saved by only installing the required packages on
> top of MSYS2 that's already installed in AppVeyor nodes [1].
> 
> [1] https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-environment/#mingw-msys-cygwin

And that is indeed what Git for Windows' Git fork has configured. Sadly,
the job timed out too often for me, even if I disabled the tests.

As of recent, things turned more green, with the build taking only about 3
minutes. Of course, re-enabling the tests would let us run smack into the
20 minutes time out, *and* we still would have to disable the tests that
fail because MSYS2's maintainer ignored the PRs trying to integrate Git
for Windows' patches to the MSYS2 runtime.

Example for a green job:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/dscho/git/build/1.0.676

Ciao,
Johannes