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[2001:4c4d:24ce:5600:55f1:2077:8e99:4861]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-b7077cc4918sm320766b.57.2025.10.30.15.30.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:30:38 +0100 From: SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= To: rsbecker@nexbridge.com Cc: 'Kristoffer Haugsbakk' , 'Junio C Hamano' , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUGS] Git v2.51.2 on NonStop5 Message-ID: References: <000d01dc4831$ff049500$fd0dbf00$@nexbridge.com> <729f9bbf-b75b-4161-b8aa-505ff906bb8a@app.fastmail.com> <3dad5cb9-976b-4e60-9e6e-05c12c7d9f2d@app.fastmail.com> <009f01dc49e6$98c5ae30$ca510a90$@nexbridge.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009f01dc49e6$98c5ae30$ca510a90$@nexbridge.com> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 05:46:01PM -0400, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote: > On October 30, 2025 4:26 PM, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 30, 2025, at 20:42, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > >> > >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, at 18:40, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote: > >>>>[snip] > >>> > >>> Would it make sense for maintenance releases to have a small release > >>> candidate pre-release? Both of these maintenance releases have had > >>> issues. > >> > >> Well, that is usually called "the tip of 'master'". Has NonStop been > >> having issues with the tip of 'master'? For how long? Why haven't we > >> heard about it at all? After things are merged there (which requires > >> them to be cooking in 'next'---oh, has NonStop been having issues with > >> 'next'? For how long?), only fixes are chosen and merged to 'maint' > >> to be the next maintenance release. > >> ... > >> I doubt any pre-release on 'maint' has much value in that anybody who > >> are not testing the tip of 'master' would not be testing it either. > > > >You are probably 99.9% likely to be correct. > > We tried setting up a CI/CD process for git on NonStop. The problem is that > we use Jenkins, which gets triggered each time a change is made on a branch. > The actual difficulty is that a single run takes more than a day. Once the > committer adds each commit to a branch, we end up with a queue that is > 2-3 weeks long, so end up not running a continuous process. Instead, we > run about 1 a week, which should catch things. The difficulty is with the > latest release is that 2.25.2 came out before our cycle and the breaks were > in there because of changes to one test that just did not end up dequeuing > in time. NonStop is building and testing fine now after Peff's suggestion on > SHELL_PATH, but that was only apparent at 2.52.2. 2.51.1 did not have this > issue with our inadvertent use of ksh to run each test script. Neither the test library nor t7900 changed in the last two maintenance releases: $ git rev-list --count v2.51.0..v2.51.2 -- t/test-lib.sh t/test-lib-functions.sh t/t7900-maintenance.sh 0