On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:37:34AM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote: > > I'm afraid that this issue would badly affect 'coverage-prove' as well > > (I didn't try). Or if doesn't (anymore?), then that should be > > mentioned in the commit message, and then perhaps it's time to remove > > that '-j1' from the 'coverage-test' target as well. > > I'll fix this by forcing an update to GIT_PROVE_OPTS. It does limit our > ability to use GIT_PROVE_OPTS as a pass-through, but at least this new > target will have that assumption built in. I think doing: make GIT_PROVE_OPTS="$(GIT_PROVE_OPTS) -j1" should be sufficient to pass through most of the options but override -j, since prove does the usual left-to-right "last one wins" behavior for its options. -Peff