Hi Michał, On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Michał Kępień wrote: > > > First, let me say that the goal of minimizing the run time of a test > > > suite is close to my heart (it is an issue at my day job). Yet, I > > > assumed that this new test would not be detrimental to test suite run > > > times as it takes about half a second to run t4069-diff-ignore-regex.sh > > > on my machine - and (I hope) its contents are in line with the "tests > > > are the best documentation" proverb. > > > > Sadly, the test is not quite as fast on Windows. I just ran this (on a not > > quite idle machine, admittedly) and it ended in this: > > > > # passed all 11 test(s) > > 1..11 > > > > real 0m51.470s > > user 0m0.046s > > sys 0m0.015s > > > > Yes, that's almost a minute. > > Out of curiosity: is that under Cygwin? I have seen shell-based tests > finishing in 15 *seconds* on Unix-like systems and in 15 *minutes* under > Cygwin, which would be in line with your measurements provided above. Close enough: it's an MSYS2 Bash (and MSYS2 is a close fork of Cygwin). It is what Git for Windows uses. Ciao, Dscho
