On 04/11/2020 13:43, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Ramsay, > > On Tue, 3 Nov 2020, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> On 02/11/2020 18:55, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> CI builds already have enough stuff around invocation of "make test" >>> etc., and it would be trivial to pass SPARSE_FLAGS from the command >>> line when adding "make sparse" invocation to one of the scripts in ci/ >>> directory, so from that point of view, this patch is not needed for >>> them, either. >> >> My concern was more about how the CI system obtains/installs/builds a >> sufficiently new version of sparse. Otherwise, 'make sparse' won't do >> very much. ;-) As I said, I don't know what's involved in getting that >> to work. > > As mentioned in https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/345, there is a > Pipeline that builds sparse packages for Ubuntu, ready for use in our CI > build: https://dev.azure.com/git/git/_build?definitionId=10&_a=summary. > Currently, it is scheduled to run every weekday at 5:00am (I assume that's > UTC). Oh-my! Has there been a CI 'make sparse' build since september last year? :-D I missed that! (I couldn't view the azure build summary given above - it just keeps asking for a user/password :( ). ATB, Ramsay Jones
