Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable parallelized tests

[Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>]

Hi,

> There are a few tests involving http transfers, namely:
>   t5540-http-push.sh
>   t9115-git-svn-dcommit-funky-renames.sh 
>   t9118-git-svn-funky-branch-names.sh
>   t9120-git-svn-clone-with-percent-escapes.sh
> 
> These start an apache web server at the beginning of the test and shut
> it down after the test finished.  Obviously, if you run tests in
> parallel then these tests can also run concurrently.  The problem is
> with the svn tests, as all those tests use the same directory and port
> for the web server, resulting in failed tests with -jN.
> 
> t5540 is not an issue at the moment, as it uses lib-httpd.sh, hence a
> different directory and a (possibly) different port than the svn
> tests.  However, who knows, in the future we might have other tests
> using lib-httpd.sh.
> 
> The simplest solution would be to disable parallel testing altogether
> if http tests are enabled (GIT_TEST_HTTPD and SVN_HTTPD_PORT).

Hm, another simple(?) solution could be to make the tests that try to
access the same port/directory/whatever depend on each other.
Well, this could bloat the Makefile, but seems to be clean (at least to
me).

Regards,
  Stephan

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