Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable -Wsparse-error for DEVELOPER build

> Hi Ramsay,
> 
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> 
>> On 02/11/2020 18:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> CI builds already have enough stuff around invocation of "make test"
>>> etc., and it would be trivial to pass SPARSE_FLAGS from the command
>>> line when adding "make sparse" invocation to one of the scripts in ci/
>>> directory, so from that point of view, this patch is not needed for
>>> them, either.
>>
>> My concern was more about how the CI system obtains/installs/builds a
>> sufficiently new version of sparse. Otherwise, 'make sparse' won't do
>> very much. ;-)  As I said, I don't know what's involved in getting that
>> to work.
> 
> As mentioned in https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/345, there is a
> Pipeline that builds sparse packages for Ubuntu, ready for use in our CI
> build: https://dev.azure.com/git/git/_build?definitionId=10&_a=summary.
> Currently, it is scheduled to run every weekday at 5:00am (I assume that's
> UTC).