From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:07:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] travis-ci: build Git during the 'script' phase
Message-ID: <xmqqvagc6m42.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180108172214.23615-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

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

> 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'.