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Re:An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015) by dasmoth on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:23AM (#12918416)
The CI absolutists tend to yell "reproducible builds" at this point and argue that things should be built from scratch every time.
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Re:An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015) by majewsky on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:16AM (#12919754)
Well, yeah. Reproducible builds are valuable. If you don't think so, then have fun trying to rollback to a commit that can only be built by building a specific set of commits leading up to it in the right order.
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Re:An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015) by benley on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:48PM (#12983918)
Yeah - this stuff is why I advocate so hard for Bazel. It actually gets this shit right, unlike nearly everything else.
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