Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable -Wsparse-error for DEVELOPER build

> On 04/11/2020 13:43, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi Ramsay,
>> 
>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020, Ramsay Jones wrote:
>> 
>>> On 02/11/2020 18:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>>> CI builds already have enough stuff around invocation of "make test"
>>>> etc., and it would be trivial to pass SPARSE_FLAGS from the command
>>>> line when adding "make sparse" invocation to one of the scripts in ci/
>>>> directory, so from that point of view, this patch is not needed for
>>>> them, either.
>>>
>>> My concern was more about how the CI system obtains/installs/builds a
>>> sufficiently new version of sparse. Otherwise, 'make sparse' won't do
>>> very much. ;-)  As I said, I don't know what's involved in getting that
>>> to work.
>> 
>> As mentioned in https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/345, there is a
>> Pipeline that builds sparse packages for Ubuntu, ready for use in our CI
>> build: https://dev.azure.com/git/git/_build?definitionId=10&_a=summary.
>> Currently, it is scheduled to run every weekday at 5:00am (I assume that's
>> UTC).
>
> Oh-my! Has there been a CI 'make sparse' build since september last year? :-D
> I missed that! (I couldn't view the azure build summary given above - it just
> keeps asking for a user/password :( ).