On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 07:54:57PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 13:45 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > > The git-test from Michael sounds intriguing. Initially I put off using > > it as I had my main working dir (or rather test dir) on a spinning > > disk, still. Now I test in memory only, which is a lot faster, so I could > > try if git-test can keep up with my local commit pace. > > > > Excuse my ignorance but I don't get your statement correctly. What do > you mean by "I test in memory only"? How do you do that?
I assume it means pointing "--root" at a tmpfs or ram disk in GIT_TEST_OPTS. That makes the test suite run _way_ faster. -Peff
