On Mar 23, 2011, at 05:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
That's completely bogus. There's no reason to believe that a push race would favour certain regressions over certain others. Again, you need the full test suite to assert that no regressions occured. (or you might as well run 10 tests at random and call it done)
If you promote the full test suite as the thing to run when resolving merge races, then I predict no one will run them, because doing so increases your chances of hitting *another* push race. This whole thread came up in the context of trying to find a quick test you could run in that case which didn't increase that race window. I think the practical effect of not having a simple, fast smoke test will be to do *less* testing when you hit the merge race, and just let the buildbots sort it all out. You'll probably win most of the time anyway. -Barry