Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2020, #04; Wed, 22)

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:18:05PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > * yz/p4-py3 (2020-01-15) 14 commits
> >  - ci: also run linux-gcc pipeline with python3.5 environment
>
> I still think that this last patch needs to be reworked before this
> series is merged any further.
>
> The only Python script we have is 'git p4', so the Python version is
> only relevant for 'git p4' tests ('t98*'), while the rest of Git and
> the test suite couldn't care less [1].  This patch, however, not only
> builds Git and runs the full test suite for each of the two Python
> versions, but, worse, runs the full test suite _twice_ for each, first
> as a "regular" test run and then again with all the GIT_TEST_* knobs
> enabled.  Consequently, it adds ~50mins to every build's runtime.
>
> That's just too wasteful.
>
>
> [1] Well, there is 'contrib/svn-fe/svnrdump_sim.py' as well, but
>     that's contrib, though it is used in 't9020-remote-svn.sh'.

>
> >  - git-p4: use python3's input() everywhere
> >  - git-p4: simplify regex pattern generation for parsing diff-tree
> >  - git-p4: use dict.items() iteration for python3 compatibility
> >  - git-p4: use functools.reduce instead of reduce
> >  - git-p4: fix freezing while waiting for fast-import progress
> >  - git-p4: use marshal format version 2 when sending to p4
> >  - git-p4: open .gitp4-usercache.txt in text mode
> >  - git-p4: convert path to unicode before processing them
> >  - git-p4: encode/decode communication with git for python3
> >  - git-p4: encode/decode communication with p4 for python3
> >  - git-p4: remove string type aliasing
> >  - git-p4: change the expansion test from basestring to list
> >  - git-p4: make python2.7 the oldest supported version
> >
> >  Update "git p4" to work with Python 3.
> >
> >  Will merge to 'next'.
>
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