Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ci(osx): use new location of the `perforce` cask

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 21, 2019, 00:26 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5zjeaxc2.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191120225439.GA18277@szeder.dev>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:18:39AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> ...
>> computes and outputs diffstat, which would only grow as the time
>> goes by and the repository cast in stone in the CI build image
>> becomes more and more stale relative to the upstream repository in
>> the outside world.
>
> Minor clarification: I, too, thought that the CI build images are cast
> in stone, but the Travis CI build images are definitely not (don't
> know about Azure Pipelines), but receive smaller updates from time to
> time, including updates to their Homebrew database.  Such a recent
> update necessitated commit 7d4733c501 (ci: fix GCC install in the
> Travis CI GCC OSX job, 2019-10-24).  I contacted Travis CI support
> about it, and they confirmed.

I do recall that their images are moving targets and updates to them did disrupt our tasks in the past. How about

    ..., which would grow as the repository that comes with the CI
    build image goes stale relative to ...

to tone it down?

Thanks.