From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: save test counts across invocations Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:39:39 +0200 Message-ID: <201109021439.39916.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <8fe5381a6b69079b8c20452fd4d99a128764dd52.1314882443.git.trast@student.ethz.ch> <20110901163846.GD15018@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 02 14:39:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QzT2B-0004qe-MJ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:39:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751666Ab1IBMjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2011 08:39:43 -0400 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:11521 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751286Ab1IBMjm (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2011 08:39:42 -0400 Received: from CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.289.1; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:39:40 +0200 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch (129.132.153.219) by CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.289.1; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:39:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.3-41-desktop; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110901163846.GD15018@sigill.intra.peff.net> X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.219] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > Anyway, this whole thing is a cute idea, and I do love eye candy, but I > wonder if it's worth the complexity. All this is telling us is how far > into each of the scripts it is. But we have literally hundreds of test > scripts, all with varying numbers of tests of varying speeds, and you're > probably running 16 or more at one time. So it doesn't tell you what you > really want to know, which is: how soon will the test suite probably be > done running. I guess you're right. Let's drop this, then. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch