richelbilderbeek/boost_graph_cookbook_1

optimize travis ci

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JohnCoconut commented

I am not familiar how CI works. Please bear with my ignorance.

When I just push request a typo fix brach, the CI need to apt install a huge amount of packages g++ textlive etc before building this tutorial. It really takes a huge amount of time to simply install packges. I feel my typo-fix pull request is simply wasting CI resources.

Is CI build machine ephemeral? Or can we custmoze it so that it install all the necessary packages beforehand. If it's not possible, can we use customized docker images to do it?

Thanks ahead.

JohnCoconut commented

Perhaps it's better to let admin to decide whether or not to start a build. For example, some repo requires a admin to post "ok to test" to start CI.

richelbilderbeek commented

Hi @mywtfmp3, thanks for thinking along! I think you don't know this yet, that would your commit be fix a typo [skip ci], Travis would not be started. Happy to teach you this trick 👍

Please close this Issue when this answers your question :-)

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JohnCoconut commented

@richelbilderbeek Thanks for new trick. I completely miss it when I had a short look at the travis doc.