From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 21:32:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] travis-ci: enable sequential test execution for t9113 and 9126
Message-ID: <20160523213254.GA11731@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq60u48o6v.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
> >> On 19 May 2016, at 19:11, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> >> 
> >>> Anyways, how about making the tests run on separate ports and
> >>> not worry about serializing them at all?
> >> 
> >> Yeah, that does sound like a more sensible approach.
> >
> > Makes sense. However, it's not something I will tackle soon.
> > Would you be willing to pick up $gmane/295048 (the first patch) as is 
> > and drop $gmane/295050 (the patch discussed here)? Then the majority
> > of Git SVN tests would run on Travis CI.
> 
> I am not sure if adding git-svn alone would be a good change.
> Wouldn't it invite false failures from running these conflicting
> tests at the same time?

The problematic tests won't run unless *_PORT variables are set;
which AFAIK they aren't, yet.