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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2020, #01; Mon, 3)

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 14, 2020, 12:40 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 02:08:28PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > From my perspective as somebody who does not work on Windows, I wonder
> > how much value there is in running vsbuild _and_ Windows CI for average
> > developers. I have certainly gotten information from these jobs (e.g.,
> > when introducing a portability problem, or missing a refactoring spot in
> > Windows-only code). But I don't think I've ever gotten information from
> > vsbuild that wasn't also in the regular windows build.
> 
> There have not been a _ton_ of these instances, but there have been a
> couple:
Thanks, that was exactly the kind of data I was interested in.
> I cannot find any more instances, so yes, I agree that the
> `vs-build`/`vs-test` jobs might not be _all_ that necessary. So maybe we
> should do something like this?

Let's leave it be for now. The topics I had to adjust due to cmake were ones that I'd had sitting around for a while. So while I hit problems immediately, now that the queue is drained it's not clear to me how often it will come up in practice.

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> -- snipsnap --
> diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
> index 30425404eb3..2549fff8edd 100644
> --- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
> +++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
> @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
>          path: ${{env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS}}
>    vs-build:
>      needs: ci-config
> -    if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes'
> +    if: (github.repository == 'git/git' || github.repository == 'gitgitgadget/git') && needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes'

If we do go this route, I'd consider defaulting it to on and just letting people disable it through needs.ci-config.outputs.vsbuild or similar.

-Peff
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  1. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2020
  2. Jeff KingAug 4, 2020
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2020
  4. Jeff KingAug 4, 2020
  5. Johannes SchindelinAug 12, 2020
  6. Jeff KingAug 12, 2020
  7. Sibi SiddharthanAug 12, 2020
  8. Jeff KingAug 12, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2020
  10. Jeff KingAug 12, 2020
  11. Johannes SchindelinAug 14, 2020
  12. Jeff KingAug 14, 2020
  13. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2020
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2020
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