The fact that Git's test suite is implemented in Unix shell script that
is as portable as we can muster, combined with the fact that Unix shell
scripting is foreign to Windows (and therefore has to be emulated),
results in pretty abysmal speed of the test suite on that platform, for
pretty much no other reason than that language choice.
For comparison: while the Linux build & test is typically done within
about 8 minutes, the Windows build & test typically lasts about 80
minutes in Azure Pipelines.
To help with that, let's use the Azure Pipeline feature where you can
parallelize jobs, make jobs depend on each other, and pass artifacts
between them.
The tests are distributed using the following heuristic: listing all
test scripts ordered by size in descending order (as a cheap way to
estimate the overall run time), every Nth script is run (where N is the
total number of parallel jobs), starting at the index corresponding to
the parallel job. This slicing is performed by a new function that is
added to the `test-tool`.
To optimize the overall runtime of the entire Pipeline, we need to move
the Windows jobs to the beginning (otherwise there would be a very
decent chance for the Pipeline to be run only the Windows build, while
all the parallel Windows test jobs wait for this single one).
We use Azure Pipelines Artifacts for both the minimal Git for Windows
SDK as well as the built executables, as deduplication and caching close
to the agents makes that really fast. For comparison: while downloading
and unpacking the minimal Git for Windows SDK via PowerShell takes only
one minute (down from anywhere between 2.5 to 7 when using a shallow
clone), uploading it as Pipeline Artifact takes less than 30s and
downloading and unpacking less than 20s (sometimes even as little as
only twelve seconds).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The JUnit XML format lends itself to be presented in a powerful UI,
where you can drill down to the information you are interested in very
quickly.
For test failures, this usually means that you want to see the detailed
trace of the failing tests.
With Travis CI, we passed the `--verbose-log` option to get those
traces. However, that seems excessive, as we do not need/use the logs in
almost all of those cases: only when a test fails do we have a way to
include the trace.
So let's do something different when using Azure DevOps: let's run all
the tests with `--quiet` first, and only if a failure is encountered,
try to trace the commands as they are executed.
Of course, we cannot turn on `--verbose-log` after the fact. So let's
just re-run the test with all the same options, adding `--verbose-log`.
And then munging the output file into the JUnit XML on the fly.
Note: there is an off chance that re-running the test in verbose mode
"fixes" the failures (and this does happen from time to time!). That is
a possibility we should be able to live with. Ideally, we would label
this as "Passed upon rerun", and Azure Pipelines even know about that
outcome, but it is not available when using the JUnit XML format for
now:
https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/blob/master/src/Agent.Worker/TestResults/JunitResultReader.cs
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a bit ridiculous to spin up a full-blown Perl instance (especially
on Windows, where that means spinning up a full POSIX emulation layer,
AKA the MSYS2 runtime) just to tell how large a given file is.
So let's just use the test-tool to do that job instead.
This command will also be used over the next commits, to allow for
cutting out individual test cases' verbose log from the file generated
via --verbose-log.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.13:
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
This tests primarily for NTFS issues, but also adds one example of an
HFS+ issue.
Thanks go to Congyi Wu for coming up with the list of examples where
NTFS would possibly equate the filename with `.gitmodules`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The parameter to basename(3) and dirname(3) traditionally had the type
"char *", but on OpenBSD it's been "const char *" for years. That
causes (at least) Clang to throw an incompatible-pointer-types warning
for test-path-utils, where we try to pass around pointers to these
functions.
Avoid this warning (which is fatal in DEVELOPER mode) by ignoring the
promise of OpenBSD's implementations to keep input strings unmodified
and enclosing them in POSIX-compatible wrappers.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This keeps top dir a bit less crowded. And because these programs are
for testing purposes, it makes sense that they stay somewhere in t/
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
