travis-ci: run previously failed tests first, then slowest to fastest

The Travis-CI machines are in a clean state in the beginning of every run
(transient by default). Use the Travis-CI cache feature to make the prove
state persistent across consecutive Travis-CI runs on the same branch.
This allows to run previously failed tests first and run remaining tests
in slowest to fastest order. As a result it is less likely that Travis-CI
needs to wait for a single test at the end which speeds up the test suite
execution by ~2 min.

Travis-CI can only cache entire directories. Prove stores the .prove file
always in the t/ directory but we don't want to cache the entire t/ directory.
Therefore we create a symlink from $HOME/travis-cache/.prove to t/.prove and
cache the $HOME/travis-cache directory.

Unfortunately the cache feature is only available (for free) on the
Travis-CI Linux environment.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Lars Schneider 2016-01-26 10:53:42 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 754884255b
commit 6272ed3194

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@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
language: c
cache:
directories:
- $HOME/travis-cache
os:
- linux
- osx
@ -18,7 +22,7 @@ env:
- P4_VERSION="15.2"
- GIT_LFS_VERSION="1.1.0"
- DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove
- GIT_PROVE_OPTS="--timer --jobs 3"
- GIT_PROVE_OPTS="--timer --jobs 3 --state=failed,slow,save"
- GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose --tee"
- CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Werror"
- GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=YesPlease
@ -67,6 +71,8 @@ before_install:
p4 -V | grep Rev.;
echo "$(tput setaf 6)Git-LFS Version$(tput sgr0)";
git-lfs version;
mkdir -p $HOME/travis-cache;
ln -s $HOME/travis-cache/.prove t/.prove;
before_script: make --jobs=2