Re: [Boost-build] meaning of "rev" in test report

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] meaning of "rev" in test report
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-27 12:18:25

On 27.10.2016 11:46, Rene Rivera wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:stefan_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
>     the test report matrix reports a "rev" attribute for each test run,
>     presumably showing a git SHA. However, I'm somewhat doubtful about
>     what
>     repository that is referring to. For example I'd expect the revs in
>     http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/python.html
>     <http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/python.html>
>     to
>     correspond to SHAs in the https://github.com/boostorg/python
>     <https://github.com/boostorg/python> repo.
>     However, I can't seem to find a single match, i.e. none of the SHAs I
>     see in the matrix appears in my git log.
>
>     If that's not the repo whose revision is being reported, which repo is
>     being used ? And how can I map that to the revision of the module
>     being
>     tested (Boost.Python in this case) ?
>
>     (The reason I'm asking is that now that the NumPy tests trickle in, I
>     see a bunch of failures, but looking at the error I notice an issue I
>     fixed a week (or so) ago, yet the test runs are more recent than
>     that. I
>     think it's crucial for the test report to give a clear indication
>     of the
>     tested module's SHA to make it possible to attempt to reproduce the
>     tests locally.
>
>
> The main rev you see in the reports is the SHA of the superproject
> <https://github.com/boostorg/boost>. If you look at the info for each
> tester there's a list of each of the submodules with a SHA of the
> submodule version that was pulled in that superproject rev. For
> example in
> <http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/teeks99-09e-win2012R2-64on64.html>
> scroll down past the tester env info and you'll see a table of "Repo"
> and "Revision" entries like this:
>
> Repo 	Revision
> \boost_bb
> 	
> 154667bb312be0cb62c9642689c566606eb7ed05
> \boost_regression
> 	
> 35d42b5d50dff7008374807aa136ddf26a97a2fd
> \boost_root
> 	
> ee9cddd7ea9ada871bea6de6c116e41c83c4654a
> \boost_root\libs\accumulators
> 	
> 70ec4c602be9d014c7246eb8ce50a6cb81f45885
>
> The first entry if the Boost Build version used to drive the testing.
> The second is the regression tools used. The third is the same as the
> one reported in the main result pages (ie the superproject). And the
> rest are the ones for submodule.
>
> HTH.

It does indeed. :-)

Thanks !

        Stefan

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