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Re: [PATCH] travis-ci: build Git during the 'script' phase

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 8, 2018, 22:07 UTC
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SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:
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> The reason why Travis CI does it this way and why it's a better
> approach than ours lies in how unsuccessful build jobs are
> categorized.  ...
> ...
> This makes it easier, both for humans looking at the Travis CI web
> interface and for automated tools querying the Travis CI API,...
> ...
> A verbose commit message for such a change... but I don't know why we
> started with building Git in the 'before_script' phase.

Thanks for writing it up clearly. TBH, I didn't even realize that there were meaningful distinctions between the two cases after seeing that sometimes our tests were failing and sometimes erroring ;-)

> Should go on top of 'sg/travis-check-untracked' in 'next'.
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  1. travis-ci: build Git during the 'script' phaseSZEDER Gábor, Jan 8, 2018
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2018
  3. Lars SchneiderJan 8, 2018
  4. SZEDER GáborJan 12, 2018
  5. Jeff KingJan 13, 2018
  6. Jeff KingJan 13, 2018
  7. SZEDER GáborJan 14, 2018
  8. Jeff KingJan 14, 2018
  9. SZEDER GáborJan 14, 2018
  10. Jeff KingJan 14, 2018

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