From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 13:24:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: update information about windows build
Message-ID: <80afe093-aceb-9478-f0d2-d69f7f75eaab@talktalk.net>
In-Reply-To: <0102015e8e4f7e75-dfec22a3-bb1a-4208-a069-450275d52b6d-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

On 17/09/17 06:28, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> 
> 029aeeed5 (travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows, 2017-03-24) added
> support for testing the git build for Windows.
> 
> So, update the documentation and the example used in it.

 From that commit:
diff --git a/ci/run-windows-build.sh b/ci/run-windows-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4e3a50b60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/run-windows-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Script to trigger the a Git for Windows build and test run.
+# Set the $GFW_CI_TOKEN as environment variable.
+# Pass the branch (only branches on https://github.com/git/git are
+# supported) and a commit hash.
+#

so only git/git from github gets built on windows, not other peoples 
trees. One cannot use travis to test ones changes on windows before 
submitting them

Best wishes

Phillip
> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 558d465b656a0..43c9b9ae49298 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -395,8 +395,9 @@ GitHub-Travis CI hints
>   
>   With an account at GitHub (you can get one for free to work on open
>   source projects), you can use Travis CI to test your changes on Linux,
> -Mac (and hopefully soon Windows).  You can find a successful example
> -test build here: https://travis-ci.org/git/git/builds/120473209
> +Mac.  Though Travis CI doesn't support Windows we have worked around
> +that temporarily!  You can find a successful example test build
> +here: https://travis-ci.org/git/git/builds/264560175
>   
>   Follow these steps for the initial setup:
>   
> 
> --
> https://github.com/git/git/pull/402
>