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Re: [PATCH] travis-ci: build Git during the 'script' phase

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2018-01-08 22:07:15

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:
The reason why Travis CI does it this way and why it's a better
approach than ours lies in how unsuccessful build jobs are
categorized.  ...
...
This makes it easier, both for humans looking at the Travis CI web
interface and for automated tools querying the Travis CI API,...
...
A verbose commit message for such a change... but I don't know why we
started with building Git in the 'before_script' phase.
Thanks for writing it up clearly.  TBH, I didn't even realize that
there were meaningful distinctions between the two cases after
seeing that sometimes our tests were failing and sometimes erroring
;-)
Should go on top of 'sg/travis-check-untracked' in 'next'.
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