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
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