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Re: Continous integration vs. sourceware.org
On 05/11/2012 04:51 PM, Ludovic CourtÃs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> skribis:
>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Ludovic CourtÃs <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The IP of the build farm of the continuous integration tool at
>>> <http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/glibc-master> [0] has apparently been
>>> banned for some time, presumably because it git pulls too much.
>>>
>>> Any idea whether the restriction could be removed, or whether a mirror
>>> should be used?
>>
>> How many times does it git pull? Every time a commit happens?
>
> It pulls at regular intervals, roughly once every 5 to 15 minutes (the
> goal being to miss as few commits as possible.)
This being git, you should still be able to fetch from the upstream
remote at any given interval, while still fast-forward merge + test
one commit at a time. IOW, there's no reason to couple fetch frequency
with missing commits or not.
--
Pedro Alves