Re: [PATCH v3] doc-diff: don't `cd_to_toplevel`

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2019, 00:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20190208005852.GT10587@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <20190207204502.GA28893@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 03:45:02PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> Fair enough. As an alternative, do you know offhand if there's an easy
> machine-readable way to get the CI results? If I could poll it with curl
> and generate my own notifications, that would be fine for me.

Well, what do you mean by "CI results"? Getting whether a build succeeded, failed, still running, etc.? Sure. Getting which particular test script (semantic patch, documentation...) caused the build failure? Nope. [1]

Travis CI has a REST API (note that you have to sign in with GitHub account to view its docs, and then need an access token to use the API):

  https://developer.travis-ci.org/gettingstarted

They also offer a command line client for this API:

  https://github.com/travis-ci/travis.rb

Depending on what you want that in itself might already be enough for you. It wasn't for me, as I have a very particular idea about how I prefer to view my CI results, but neither the website nor the CLI client offer such a compact _and_ detailed view like this:

  ccccccccc 2175  pu
  ccccccccc 2174  sg/ci-parallel-build
  ccccccccc 2173  js/fuzz-commit-graph-update
  ccccccccc 2172  js/mingw-host-cpu
  PsscsPscc 2171  dl/submodule-set-branch
  PPXsPPPPP 2170  kl/pretty-doc-markup-fix
  PPPPPPPPP 2169  en/combined-all-paths

('c' - created, 's' - started, 'P' - passed, 'X' - failed)

Nothing that can't be achived with good screenful of Python/Ruby/etc scripting... including colors matching the website's color scheme! :)

[1] Although since we include the trash directory of the failed test
    script in the logs, surrounded by clear marker lines containing
    the failed test script's name, it wouldn't be too hard to get it
    programmatically, either.