Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Add Travis CI support

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Lars Schneider
> <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> +install: make configure && ./configure
>>>> +
>>>> +before_script: make
>>>> +
>>>> +script: make --quiet test
>>> 
>>> Semantically, it does not seem correct to me that configuarion goes to the install step. As "make test" will build git anyway, I'd instead propose to get rid of "install" and just say:
>>> 
>>> before_script: make configure && ./configure
>>> 
>>> script: make --quiet test
>> 
>> I understand your point. I did this to make the "make" logs easily accessible (no option "--quite"). By default Travis CI automatically collapses the logs from all stages prior to the "script" stage. You can uncollapse these logs by clicking on the little triangle on the left border of the log. Therefore the "make" logs are available without noise.
> 
> To make this more clear, I guess what you're referring to is the
> visual difference between [1] and [2], correct?

> 
>> Do you see value in "make" logs?
>> 
>> If yes then we could also do:
>> before_script: make configure && ./configure && make
> 
> Reading through Travis' docs [3] again, "before_script" is documented
> to "return a non-zero exit code, the build is errored and stops
> immediately", while "script" is documented as "returns a non-zero exit
> code, the build is failed, but continues to run before being marked as
> failed". As it does not make much sense to continue the build or even
> start testing if the build failed, maybe it's indeed best to do:
> 
> before_script: make configure && ./configure && make
> 
> script: make --quiet test