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author | Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> | 2017-03-24 12:37:47 +0100 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-28 12:24:48 -0700 |
commit | 029aeeed55f6bfe8014e8ffe5fc7a6f2e5b110fc (patch) | |
tree | 31130b67d610516e3cb98c8a09b9b162f891ef00 /reachable.h | |
parent | Eighth batch for 2.13 (diff) | |
download | tgif-029aeeed55f6bfe8014e8ffe5fc7a6f2e5b110fc.tar.xz |
travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows
Most Git developers work on Linux and they have no way to know if their
changes would break the Git for Windows build. Let's fix that by adding
a job to TravisCI that builds and tests Git on Windows. Unfortunately,
TravisCI does not support Windows.
Therefore, we did the following:
* Johannes Schindelin set up a Visual Studio Team Services build
sponsored by Microsoft and made it accessible via an Azure Function
that speaks a super-simple API. We made TravisCI use this API to
trigger a build, wait until its completion, and print the build and
test results.
* A Windows build and test run takes up to 3h and TravisCI has a timeout
after 50min for Open Source projects. Since the TravisCI job does not
use heavy CPU/memory/etc. resources, the friendly TravisCI folks
extended the job timeout for git/git to 3h.
Things, that would need to be done:
* Someone with write access to https://travis-ci.org/git/git would need
to add the secret token as "GFW_CI_TOKEN" variable in the TravisCI
repository setting [1]. Afterwards the build should just work.
Things, that might need to be done:
* The Windows box can only process a single build at a time. A second
Windows build would need to wait until the first finishes. This
waiting time and the build time after the wait could exceed the 3h
threshold. If this is a problem, then it is likely to happen every day
as usually multiple branches are pushed at the same time (pu/next/
master/maint). I cannot test this as my TravisCI account has the 50min
timeout. One solution could be to limit the number of concurrent
TravisCI jobs [2].
[1] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables#Defining-Variables-in-Repository-Settings
[2] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build#Limiting-Concurrent-Builds
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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