When the `win+Meson` job was added to Git's CI, modeled after the
`win+vs` job, it overlooked that the latter built the Git artifacts in
release mode.
The reason for this is that there is code in `compat/mingw.c` that turns
on the modal assertion dialogs in debug mode, which are very useful when
debugging interactively (as they offer to attach Visual Studio's
debugger), but they are scarcely useful in CI builds (where that modal
dialog would sit around, waiting for a human being to see and deal with
it, which obviously won't ever happen).
This problem was not realized immediately because of a separate bug: the
`win+Meson` job erroneously built using the `gcc` that is in the `PATH`
by default on hosted GitHub Actions runners. Since that bug was fixed by
switching to `--vsenv`, though, the t7001-mv test consistently timed out
after six hours in the CI builds on GitHub, quite often, and wasting
build minutes without any benefit in return.
The reason for this timeout was a symptom of aforementioned debug mode
problem, where the test case 'nonsense mv triggers assertion failure and
partially updated index' in t7001-mv triggered an assertion.
I originally proposed this here patch to address the timeouts in CI
builds. The Git project decided to address this timeout differently,
though: by fixing the bug that the t7001-mv test case demonstrated. This
does not address the debug mode problem, though, as an `assert()` call
could be triggered in other ways in CI, and it should still not cause
the CI build to hang but should cause Git to error out instead. To avoid
having to accept this here patch, it was then proposed to replace all
`assert()` calls in Git's code base by `BUG()` calls. This might be
reasonable for independent reasons, but it obviously still does not
address the debug mode problem, as `assert()` calls could be easily
re-introduced by mistake, and besides, Git has a couple of dependencies
that all may have their own `assert()` calls (which are then safely
outside the control of the Git project to remove), therefore this here
patch is still needed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
[jc: rebased on 'maint' to enable fast-tracking the change down]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
run: pip install meson ninja
- name: Setup
shell: pwsh
- run: meson setup build -Dperl=disabled -Dcredential_helpers=wincred
+ run: meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Dperl=disabled -Dcredential_helpers=wincred
- name: Compile
shell: pwsh
run: meson compile -C build
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