Re: [PATCH v2] travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Lars Schneider
[off-list ref] wrote:

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1. use appveyor.com, as that is a Travis-like service for Windows. We do our
  windows-builds in the curl project using that.

The Git for Windows build and tests are *really* resources intensive and they
take a lot of setup time. AFAIK we would run into timeouts with AppVeyor.
Maybe Sebastian or Dscho know details?

At lot of setup time, in terms of installing the Git for Windows SDK,
could probably be saved by only installing the required packages on
top of MSYS2 that's already installed in AppVeyor nodes [1].

[1] https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-environment/#mingw-msys-cygwin

And that is indeed what Git for Windows' Git fork has configured. Sadly,
the job timed out too often for me, even if I disabled the tests.

As of recent, things turned more green, with the build taking only about 3
minutes. Of course, re-enabling the tests would let us run smack into the
20 minutes time out, *and* we still would have to disable the tests that
fail because MSYS2's maintainer ignored the PRs trying to integrate Git
for Windows' patches to the MSYS2 runtime.

Example for a green job:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/dscho/git/build/1.0.676

Ciao,
Johannes