Travis CI runs the 32 bit Linux build job in a Docker container, where
all commands are executed as root by default. Therefore, ever since
we added this build job in 88dedd5e7 (Travis: also test on 32-bit
Linux, 2017-03-05), we have a bit of code to create a user in the
container matching the ID of the host user and then to run the test
suite as this user. Matching the host user ID is important, because
otherwise the host user would have no access to any files written by
processes running in the container, notably the logs of failed tests
couldn't be included in the build job's trace log.
Alas, this piece of code never worked, because it sets the variable
holding the user name ($CI_USER) in a subshell, meaning it doesn't
have any effect by the time we get to the point to actually use the
variable to switch users with 'su'. So all this time we were running
the test suite as root.
Reorganize that piece of code in 'ci/run-linux32-build.sh' a bit to
avoid that problematic subshell and to ensure that we switch to the
right user. Furthermore, make the script's optional host user ID
option mandatory, so running the build accidentally as root will
become harder when debugging locally. If someone really wants to run
the test suite as root, whatever the reasons might be, it'll still be
possible to do so by explicitly passing '0' as host user ID.
Finally, one last catch: since commit 7e72cfcee (travis-ci: save prove
state for the 32 bit Linux build, 2017-12-27) the 'prove' test harness
has been writing its state to the Travis CI cache directory from
within the Docker container while running as root. After this patch
'prove' will run as a regular user, so in future build jobs it won't
be able overwrite a previously written, still root-owned state file,
resulting in build job failures. To resolve this we should manually
delete caches containing such root-owned files, but that would be a
hassle. Instead, work this around by changing the owner of the whole
contents of the cache directory to the host user ID.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of our 'ci/*' scripts repeat the name or full path of the Travis
CI cache directory, and the following patches will add new places
using that path.
Use a variable to refer to the path of the cache directory instead, so
it's hard-coded only in a single place.
Pay extra attention to the 32 bit Linux build: it runs in a Docker
container, so pass the path of the cache directory from the host to
the container in an environment variable. Note that an environment
variable passed this way is exported inside the container, therefore
its value is directly available in the 'su' snippet even though that
snippet is single quoted. Furthermore, use the variable in the
container only if it's been assigned a non-empty value, to prevent
errors when someone is running or debugging the Docker build locally,
because in that case the variable won't be set as there won't be any
Travis CI cache.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Every once in a while our explicit .gitignore files get out of sync
when our build process learns to create new artifacts, like test
helper executables, but the .gitignore files are not updated
accordingly.
Use Travis CI to help catch such issues earlier: check that there are
no untracked files at the end of any build jobs building Git (i.e. the
64 bit Clang and GCC Linux and OSX build jobs, plus the GETTEXT_POISON
and 32 bit Linux build jobs) or its documentation, and fail the build
job if there are any present.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Travis CI dutifully builds and tests each new branch tip, even if its
tree has previously been successfully built and tested. This happens
often enough in contributors' workflows, when a work-in-progress
branch is rebased changing e.g. only commit messages or the order or
number of commits while leaving the resulting code intact, and is then
pushed to a Travis CI-enabled GitHub fork.
This is wasting Travis CI's resources and is sometimes scary-annoying
when the new tip commit with a tree identical to the previous,
successfully tested one is suddenly reported in red, because one of
the OSX build jobs happened to exceed the time limit yet again.
So extend our Travis CI build scripts to skip building commits whose
trees have previously been successfully built and tested. Use the
Travis CI cache feature to keep a record of the object names of trees
that tested successfully, in a plain and simple flat text file, one
line per tree object name. Append the current tree's object name at
the end of every successful build job to this file, along with a bit
of additional info about the build job (commit object name, Travis CI
job number and id). Limit the size of this file to 1000 records, to
prevent it from growing too large for git/git's forever living
integration branches. Check, using a simple grep invocation, in each
build job whether the current commit's tree is already in there, and
skip the build if it is. Include a message in the skipped build job's
trace log, containing the URL to the build job successfully testing
that tree for the first time and instructions on how to force a
re-build. Catch the case when a build job, which successfully built
and tested a particular tree for the first time, is restarted and omit
the URL of the previous build job's trace log, as in this case it's
the same build job and the trace log has just been overwritten.
Note: this won't kick in if two identical trees are on two different
branches, because Travis CI caches are not shared between build jobs
of different branches.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change follows suit of 6272ed319 (travis-ci: run previously
failed tests first, then slowest to fastest, 2016-01-26), which did
this for the Linux and OSX build jobs. Travis CI build jobs run the
tests parallel, which is sligtly faster when tests are run in slowest
to fastest order, shortening the overall runtime of this build job by
about a minute / 10%.
Note, that the 32 bit Linux build job runs the tests suite in a Docker
container and we have to share the Travis CI cache directory with the
container as a second volume. Otherwise we couldn't use a symlink
pointing to the prove state file in the cache directory, because
that's outside of the directory hierarchy accessible from within the
container.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the Travis CI commands are in the '.travis.yml'. The yml format
does not support functions and therefore code duplication is necessary
to run commands across all builds.
To fix this, add a library for common CI functions. Move all Travis CI
code into dedicated scripts and make them call the library first.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
