On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Noorul Islam K M <noo...@collab.net> wrote: > "Bert Huijben" <b...@qqmail.nl> writes: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@xbc.nu] On Behalf Of Branko Cibej >>> Sent: maandag 21 februari 2011 13:19 >>> To: Philip Martin >>> Cc: dev@subversion.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] input_validation_tests.py: Reduce overhead of multiple >>> checkouts. >> >>> You could argue that tiny tests that do not modify a sandbox can be >>> merged together. Of course, if there's a bug in the implementation and >>> one of those subtests /does/ modify the sandbox, causing another down >>> the line to fail for no obvious reason, that hardly makes life easier >>> for the poor sod who has to analyse that mess. >> >> Wasn't there some option to ask for a read-only sandbox? >> > > On trunk the test already use read-only option. This patch reduces > number of checkouts. All these tests require only read-only working > copy.
There's another way to make these tests go faster: we simply have to make checkout faster :-). As in: "blazingly fast" ... Anyone wants to take on this bite-sized task? ;-) Cheers, -- Johan
