Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > >> Even if you don't care about the end result or making git easier to hack > >> on for people who don't share your setup, > > > > I don't know about Junio, I do want to make git easier to hack for > > people that don't share my setup, but I would like to know what that > > setup is. > > I think all of this is covered in detail upthread. >From [1] I understand some systems have a problem clobbering a binary that is being run. So if you are running a test that is using a binary that you are rebuilding at the same time, you get an error. OK. I still don't see why anyone would want to rebuild the binary in the middle of running tests. The result of the tests is only meaningful for a particular build. This is what I don't get. I get that you want to do this, what I don't get is *why*. In order to be able to rebuild _and_ keep running the tests for a certain build an out-of-source build is needed. Modern build systems like CMake and Meson do these kinds of builds by default. In fact, Meson doesn't support anything else. With an in-source build such as in git, I first stop the tests, and then rebuild, and that's what I would expect everyone else to do. I don't think it has been explained why anybody wouldn't. Cheers. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/871r8r1hwe.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ -- Felipe Contreras
