From: Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:03:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Is anybody using .cirrus.yml?
Message-ID: <185E9620-34CE-4FAC-935B-7C9C68D3563D@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <auskIPBRorDxDj6N@pks.im>


> Le 4 nov. 2026 à 07:28, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> a écrit :
> 
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 11:57:52AM +0200, Tuomas Ahola wrote:
>> 
>> Since b5a9d7afcd (CI: add FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI,
>> 2019-12-20), .cirrus.yml has powered Git's VM-based FreeBSD CI.
>> 
>> However, with the shutdown of Cirrus CI on 2026-06-01, there
>> don't seem to be any drop-in solutions available to support our
>> usecase---while there exist tools in general to run Cirrus pipelines
> 
> The three dashes are a bit funny, but okay.

It’s a typewriter convention for an em-dash, which is difficult
to distinguish from a hyphen or en-dash in fixed-width fonts.