Re: [PATCH/RFC] tests: WIP Infrastructure for Git smoke testing

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 30, 2010, 16:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7v39v1rlq1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100730123443.GA11936@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think these days Junio runs the test suite through a couple of VMs,
> but I don't know exactly which platforms, or how often he does so.

The normal "before push-out" procedure for me is:

 - On Debian5 (x86_64 -- this is my primary box): build, build docs, run
   tests, install for all four integration branches (Dothem script from
   'todo' branch, whose checkout I have in Meta/, is used for this).

 - Push the four branches and run Dothem on k.org's FC11 (x86_64).

 - VMs running FC11 (i386) and FBSD80 (i386) run the same "Dothem" script,
   modulo that t9xxx series of tests which take too much time are skipped,
   when all four branches passes tests on my primary box successfully.

I push the result out after the four branches are Ok on my primary box and k.org's FC11 (iow, I do not wait for VM tests to finish).