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Re:The End of CI by oldjavacoder on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:20PM (#31968831)
"What if it was possible to have a local build system that would run tests etc and provide a cryptographically secure hash proving that the tests passed"

On who's system? Your? Mine? Someone else's? The purpose of CI is consistent continuous integration in a same like manner, not relying on developer A, B or C's systems which may vary greatly.

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Re:The End of CI by Arbortheus on Sunday July 03, 2022 @03:34PM (#31970315)
If your tests ran in a sandbox, for instance the Bazel sandbox or a Docker container, and this has the same configuration on CI and on the local machine, then it does not matter if the tests ran in CI or on a developer's machine.

This falls apart for things like integration tests, which may be too large/complex/interconnected to work on a local machine, but most of the time this would be more than sufficient.

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