> On 22 Mar 2017, at 20:29, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > The benefit is that Windows CI does not have to subscribe to the > GitHub repository to get notified (instead uses Travis as a relay > for update notification) and the result can be seen at the same > place as results on other platforms Travis natively support are > shown? Correct!
> Very nice. Thanks :-) >> 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. > > We need to make sure this does not leak to the execution log of > Travis. True. I think I took care of this and it should not leak! >> 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. > > Perhaps instead of accumulating pending requests, perhaps we can > arrange so that Travis skips a build/test request that is not even > started yet for the same branch? For branches that are never > rewound, a breakage in an earlier pushout would either show in a > later pushout of the same branch (if breakage is not fixed yet), or > doesn't (if the later pushout was to fix that breakage), and in > either case, it is not useful to test the earlier pushout when a > newer one is already available for testing. For branches that are > constantly rewound, again, it is not useful to test the earlier > pushout when a newer one is already available for testing. Well, look at this. TravisCi *just* released a solution to exactly that problem! Good timing! https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-03-22-introducing-auto-cancellation >> diff --git a/ci/run-windows-build.sh b/ci/run-windows-build.sh >> new file mode 100755 >> index 0000000000..324a9ea4e6 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/ci/run-windows-build.sh >> @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ >> +#!/usr/bin/env bash > > I know this is not a usual scripted Porcelain that must be usable by > all users, but I do not see anything that requires bash-ism in the > script. Can we just do "#!/bin/sh", avoid bash-isms, and follow the > usual coding guidelines in general? Sure! >> +[ $# -eq 3 ] || (echo "Unexpected number of parameters" && exit 1) > > i.e.e.g "test $# = 3" || ... > >> +# Check if the $BUILD_ID contains a number >> +case $BUILD_ID in >> + ''|*[!0-9]*) echo $BUILD_ID && exit 1 >> +esac > > Too deep an indent of a case arm, i.e. align them with case/esac, like > > case $BUILD_ID in > ''|*[!0-9]*) echo $BUILD_ID && exit 1 > esac Will do in v2! Thanks, Lars
