On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 02:57:23PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 04:33:54AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:35:36AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:07:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > >> > [snip] > > >> > > * ps/perf-with-separate-output-directory (2021-07-02) 1 commit > > >> > > - perf: fix when running with TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY > > >> > > > > >> > > Test update. > > >> > > > > >> > > What's the status of this one? > > >> > > > >> > From my point of view this is ready, but it's still missing reviews so > > >> > far. The lack of interest seems to indicate that nobody has hit the > > >> > issue so far, and I wonder why that is. Am I the only one who sets > > >> > TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY to a tmpfs directory in his config.mak to speed up > > >> > tests? > > >> > > >> I had marked it to look at, but just hadn't gotten around to it. I just > > >> gave it a review (but the upshot is that it looks fine to me). > > >> > > >> I don't set TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY myself; instead I do: > > >> > > >> GIT_TEST_OPTS = --root=/path/to/tmpfs > > >> > > >> TBH, I had never really considered using TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY for this > > >> (--root predates it, and was written explicitly for the tmpfs case). But > > >> I also think --root is more convenient: > > >> > > >> - "make test" will run in the tmpfs for speed, but "./t1234-foo.sh -i" > > >> will run locally, which makes it easy to "cd" in to inspect the > > >> result > > >> > > >> - likewise, I find accessing the results in t/test-results/*.out a > > >> little more convenient > > >> > > >> But all of that is preference. I don't think you're wrong to use > > >> TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY this way, but the above points might be > > >> interesting to you. > > > > > > It is, thanks a lot for the hint. But given your first point about > > > direct execution, this in fact makes me want TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY in > > > contrast to `--root=/path/to/tmpfs`: especially in the context of perf > > > tests, I never run all of them together given that it takes such a long > > > time. So I instead either run them directly or via the `./run` script, > > > and in both cases I definitely want to have them in tmpfs given that > > > there's a lot of disk churn if you're using biggish repos. > > > > > > Patrick > > > > Thanks, all. Let me mark the patch for 'next'. > > OK, if you don't care that TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY is broken, so be it. I just think we shouldn't strip away features if we should instead look at why the testcase is broken and how to fix the root cause. I'll send a patch in a minute which fixes the testcase without dropping support for TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY. Patrick
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