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Most Git developers work on Linux and they have no way to know if their changes would break the Git for Windows build. Let's fix that by adding a job to TravisCI that builds and tests Git on Windows. Unfortunately, TravisCI does not support Windows. Therefore, we did the following: * Johannes Schindelin set up a Visual Studio Team Services build sponsored by Microsoft and made it accessible via an Azure Function that speaks a super-simple API. We made TravisCI use this API to trigger a build, wait until its completion, and print the build and test results. * A Windows build and test run takes up to 3h and TravisCI has a timeout after 50min for Open Source projects. Since the TravisCI job does not use heavy CPU/memory/etc. resources, the friendly TravisCI folks extended the job timeout for git/git to 3h. Things, that would need to be done: * Someone with write access to https://travis-ci.org/git/git would need to add the secret token as "GFW_CI_TOKEN" variable in the TravisCI repository setting [1]. Afterwards the build should just work. Things, that might need to be done: * The Windows box can only process a single build at a time. A second Windows build would need to wait until the first finishes. This waiting time and the build time after the wait could exceed the 3h threshold. If this is a problem, then it is likely to happen every day as usually multiple branches are pushed at the same time (pu/next/ master/maint). I cannot test this as my TravisCI account has the 50min timeout. One solution could be to limit the number of concurrent TravisCI jobs [2]. [1] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables#Defining-Variables-in-Repository-Settings [2] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build#Limiting-Concurrent-Builds Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks