Re: [PATCH 0/3] fixing expensive http test timeouts

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 09:19:11AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> 
> >> pushes only to "cast in stone" branches.  If there are other
> >> branches that deserve to be tested with TEST_LONG upon other events
> >> that the existing GitHub Actions CI does not trigger, it may be good
> >> to have GitLab CI cover them, perhaps?
> >
> > I'm a bit hesitant to do such a split, mostly because the canonical
> > source of truth that the project typically uses is GitHub's CI. So I
> > want us at GitLab to be able to catch the same issues that GitHub would
> > flag. And if GitLab's CI stopped detecting everything that GitHub does,
> > then the result would likely be that we often create merge requests on
> > both platforms, which would only result in more wasted resources.
> 
> I didn't suggest splitting them into two circles that overlap but
> each with area only it covers, though.  GitLab's coverage can be
> superset to GitHub's and that would satify what I suggested.

Fair.

> FWIW, I do not consider GitHub's CI "the canonical source" at all.
> It is a very handy service to use to check how well we are doing,
> but from time to time it has its own hiccups ;-).

Well, GitLab of course has its own share of hiccups, like for example
the Chocolatey issues we've been facing.

> What can we do to make the visibility of GitLab's CI more prominent?
> 
> I know where the CI jobs that are triggered when I push out the
> integration branches are found at GitHub's website[*], but I do not
> think I know the corresponding one at GitLab, for example, and I
> think that is a shame.

The pipelines of the official mirror can be found at [1]. We might for
example add something like the below patch to our README.md to make it
more discoverable.

Patrick

[1]: https://gitlab.com/git-scm/git/-/pipelines

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d87bca1b8c..9ad77fdf7e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[![Build status](https://github.com/git/git/workflows/CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/git/git/actions?query=branch%3Amaster+event%3Apush)
+[![GitHub build status](https://github.com/git/git/workflows/CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/git/git/actions?query=branch%3Amaster+event%3Apush)
+[![GitLab build status](https://gitlab.com/git-scm/git/badges/master/pipeline.svg)](https://gitlab.com/git-scm/git/-/pipelines?ref=master)
 
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