Re: [PATCH v1] travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2017, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20170323204114.ui7jqrd3guwc3sgl@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7f3fbury.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 01:30:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> >> We can blacklist these branches with a regex in the travis.yml:
> >> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build#Building-Specific-Branches
> >
> > I had a feeling it might be something like that. So we would all need to
> > agree on the convention for WIP branch names. If other people like the
> > idea, I'm happy to make a patch, but I don't want to impose my own weird
> > conventions on everyone else.
> 
> I can go with any convention, but I'd be more pleased if you made
> sure that "do not build this with CI" and "this is WIP" are kept as
> two separate concepts, as I can see having some WIP that I do want
> to get tested.
> 
> Perhaps a substring "/noci-" anywhere in the branch name, or
> something silly like that?

Hrm, most of the point for me was _not_ having to define the two concepts separately. Let me try it for a while with "[ci skip]" in the tip commit subject, and see how painful I find that. My goal is eventually to turn on notifications, so I'd quickly be reminded if I forgot such a marker.

-Peff