From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
Message-ID: <xmqq4jhp438y.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20231113184909.GB3838361@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I do have to wonder, though, as somebody who did not follow the
> unit-test topic closely: why are the unit tests totally separate from
> the rest of the suite? I would think we'd want them run from one or more
> t/t*.sh scripts. That would make bugs like this impossible, but also:
>
>   1. They'd be run via "make test", so developers don't have to remember
>      to run them separately.
>
>   2. They can be run in parallel with all of the other tests when using
>      "prove -j", etc.

Very good points.  Josh?