[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #899: Push testsuite results to a git repository

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#899: Push testsuite results to a git repository
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  Reporter:  eschnett     |       Owner:     
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
  Priority:  major        |   Milestone:     
 Component:  Cactus       |     Version:     
Resolution:               |    Keywords:     
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Comment (by eschnett):

 Would it make sense to have each test run as a single simulation with
 multiple restarts? This would fit better into the Simfactory scheme, but
 would prevent running them in parallel.

 I usually have branches for configurations (not machines). That means that
 e.g. damiana-gcc and damiana-intel would be in different branches.

 It is possible to expire old runs. This would probably make it necessary
 to not link the different commits into a sequence (but rather have a
 multi-headed repository). Each commit would also be tagged. Removing the
 tag would then expire a run. This may not be a good idea, because it may
 confuse many tools. I don't do this in Formaline.

 I just checked, and a single test result uses 8 MB. This indicates an
 incremental cost of about 2 MB per test run. I assume you run "git gc"
 from time to time, and that 363 MB is measured after a gc?

 I would store the output data as well. If we run out of space, we can
 reduce the size (but moving some of the files to a new repository).

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