From 878a1f3381a8070339789ae231c65951b6fed7e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Silvester Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 06:00:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update Travis notes --- doc/travis_notes.txt | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/travis_notes.txt b/doc/travis_notes.txt index 7256b007..16481108 100644 --- a/doc/travis_notes.txt +++ b/doc/travis_notes.txt @@ -5,14 +5,15 @@ Travis Notes: - Use http://lint.travis-ci.org/ to make sure it is valid yaml. - Make sure all of your "-" lines start on the same column - Make sure all of your "if" lines are aligned with the "else" and "fi" lines +- Recommend using tab stops (but not tab chars) everywhere for alignment - "If" blocks must be on one travis statement and have semicolons at the end of each line: ``` - - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == 2.7 ]]; then - echo "2.7"; - else - echo "Not 2.7"; - end + - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == 2.7 ]]; then + echo "2.7"; + else + echo "Not 2.7"; + end ``` - "If" blocks cannot contain comments @@ -21,5 +22,8 @@ Travis Notes: `echo "hello : world"` is interpreted as `echo \"hello : world\"` `"echo 'hello : world'"` is interpreted as `echo 'hello : world'` `"echo 'hello : '$(MYVAR)'world'"` is interpreted as `echo 'hello : $(MYVAR)world'` -- Use `travis_retry` before a command to have it try several times before failing - (useful for installing from third party sources) +- Use `travis_retry` before a command to have it try several times before +failing (useful for installing from third party sources) +- Feel free to cancel a build rather than waiting for it to go to completion +if you have made a change to that branch. +- A VM with 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 is a huge help.