Re: sharing between local "work" and "nightly build" git repos

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

David Frech, Fri, Jul 13, 2007 02:33:19 +0200:
> On 7/12/07, David Frech <nimblemachines@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 7/12/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Then a nightly update would go like this:
> >>
> >>  $ cd ~/nightly-git
> >>  $ git pull origin next
> >>  $ make clean
> >>  $ make test || barf
> 
> One more thing: would it make sense to do "make -k test" so that *all*
> failures (if >1) show up?

Yes, definitely. You'll find you will see failures which you know are
already fixed, just didn't reach the nightly-build yet.

BTW, do _not_ send the errors to this mailing list. It just too easy
gets out of control. And consider saving the build log somewhere after
doing a _completely_ clean build, i.e. like this:

    #!/bin/bash
    cd ~/nightly-git || exit
    echo 'Subject: Nightly build git next ' $(date) >/tmp/mail.msg
    echo >>/tmp/mail.msg
    {
	rm -rf * # it does not remove .git
	git reset --hard
	git pull origin next || exit 1
	make || exit 1
	make -k test|| exit 1
    } &>> /tmp/mail.msg

    $ nightly-build || sendmail local-user@localhost < /tmp/mail.msg

It is simplier to find out what went wrong if you know what state did
you have before doing the test. And the state after rm -rf * is very
simple to predict.