From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 21:19:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7300: mark test with SANITY
Message-ID: <xmqqk2jalu03.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160503211528.GA32737@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Maybe. I admit to not really using the Travis tests myself, as they are
> way too slow and cumbersome to debug compared to just running "make
> test".  The primary value to me of centralized CI is:
>
>   1. _If_ people are looking at PRs on GitHub, the test status is shown
>      right there in the PR, without a reviewer having to wonder whether
>      the submitter ran "make test". But since I don't ever look at PRs
>      for Git, that's not helpful.

What I was hoping was that bots like SubmitGit could look at that
status.

>   2. Quicker testing on a variety of platforms that I don't have.
>
>      ... I think
>      there was some discussion in the 0day thread elsewhere on the list,
>      but I didn't follow it too closely.

Yes, I'd love to see it happen some day.

> Anyway, back to the original question. I do think "test as root" can be
> considered another platform, which makes it a good match for CI. But at
> the same time, I don't know that it has ever surfaced an actual bug in
> _Git_, and not just the test suite. So seeing those bugs quickly is a
> lot less interesting.

True.