On Thu, Sep 09 2021, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Junio, > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Remove the "test-tool run-command testsuite" sub-sub-command, it has >> > not been used since 4c2c38e800f (ci: modification of main.yml to use >> > cmake for vs-build job, 2020-06-26), see also the earlier >> > 6081d3898fe (ci: retire the Azure Pipelines definition, 2020-04-11) >> > for another phasing out of the command. >> >> I'll leave this patch hanging in the list archive until I hear from >> somebody from Azure camp say that they do not need it anymore and >> they do not plan to use it in the future. Of course, if somebody >> else from outside the Windows circle is using it or plans to use it >> in a near future, they can raise their voice heard while we are >> waiting for such an Ack. > > As I mentioned, I would love for this to stay. > > The reason is that there is a long-running ticket about polishing > BusyBox-w32, polishing Git for Windows' support for BusyBox, and then > shipping a MinGit [*1*] version _without_ Bash and _without_ Perl. > Obviously, I would want to verify that it works as intended, and that's > where this `testsuite` command would come in (we already bundle the test > artifacts in our CI runs, so `test-tool.exe` would be available). > > Ciao, > Dscho > > Footnote *1*: MinGit is a subset of Git for Windows, intended to be > bundled by 3rd-party applications that do not require interactive Git > usage, optimized for a small disk foot print. For more details, see > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit I'm fine with it staying, I have some cooking serieses where I'll submit some tree-wide fixes that might touch this code then (e.g. general *_INIT pattern improvements). I did find the "without bash and without Perl" part of your above confusing, most of what this program does is a re-implementation of GNU make and t/aggregate-results.sh, and indeed your be5d88e1128 (test-tool run-command: learn to run (parts of) the testsuite, 2019-10-04) says as much, and that makes sense for the reasons stated in your be5d88e1128.
