Re: Ability to remember last known good build

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Re: Ability to remember last known good build

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:08:42

"Pedroso, Osiris" [off-list ref] writes:
I participate in an open source project that any pull merge is accepted, no matter what.

This makes for lots of broken builds, even though we do have Travis-CI enabled on the project, because people will merge a request before even the build is complete.

Therefore, I would like to remember the id of the commit of the last successful build. This would be updated by the Travis-CI script itself upon a successful build.

I imagine best option would be to merge master to a certain branch named "Last_known_Linux_build" or "Last_known_Windows_build" or even "Last_known_build_all_tests_passing".

I am new to git, but some other experienced co-volunteers tell me that it may not be possible due to authentication issues.

Any better way of accomplishing this?
"test && git branch -f last-good"?

Re: Ability to remember last known good build

From: Stefan Beller <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:08:42

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
"Pedroso, Osiris" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
I participate in an open source project that any pull merge is accepted, no matter what.

This makes for lots of broken builds, even though we do have Travis-CI enabled on the project, because people will merge a request before even the build is complete.

Therefore, I would like to remember the id of the commit of the last successful build. This would be updated by the Travis-CI script itself upon a successful build.

I imagine best option would be to merge master to a certain branch named "Last_known_Linux_build" or "Last_known_Windows_build" or even "Last_known_build_all_tests_passing".

I am new to git, but some other experienced co-volunteers tell me that it may not be possible due to authentication issues.

Any better way of accomplishing this?
"test && git branch -f last-good"?
Travis-CI enabled, tells me they're using Github and are distributed,
so one contributor would want to know the last known good state of
a remote, that others push to, without testing all commits locally.

So maybe the question is better rephrased as: "How do we keep track of
the last good state using the distributed nature of Git?"

I would rather ask the more fundamental question of the workflow
of having everything merged despite tests failing. Also accepting
pull requests no matter what, sounds suspicious to me. (Can I sneak
in security issues or delete all files and it still is pulled?)
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RE: Ability to remember last known good build

From: Randall S. Becker <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:08:42

On March 11, 2016 1:08 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
"Pedroso, Osiris" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
I participate in an open source project that any pull merge is accepted,
no
matter what.
quoted
This makes for lots of broken builds, even though we do have Travis-CI
enabled on the project, because people will merge a request before even
the
build is complete.
quoted
Therefore, I would like to remember the id of the commit of the last
successful build. This would be updated by the Travis-CI script itself
upon a
successful build.
quoted
I imagine best option would be to merge master to a certain branch named
"Last_known_Linux_build" or "Last_known_Windows_build" or even
"Last_known_build_all_tests_passing".
quoted
I am new to git, but some other experienced co-volunteers tell me that
it
may not be possible due to authentication issues.
quoted
Any better way of accomplishing this?
"test && git branch -f last-good"?
I think semantically a last-good tag might be another option, unless you are
applying build fixes to a last-good topic branch. You also have the option
of adding content to the tag describing the build reason, engine used, etc.
See git tag --help. I have used that in a Jenkins environment putting the
tag move in the step following a build (failure does not execute the step so
the last-good build tag stays where it is).

Cheers,
Randall

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