1192525 - Please install Git on Windows testers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: General, task)

Description

[Armen [:armenzg]]

It can also be a win8 machine if preferred.

I need to find the path to git.exe

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

If I just tell you git isn't installed on our Windows testers, does that make it easier?

Git is only available on our Windows builders so far at C:\mozilla-build\Git\bin\

Comment 2

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Anyone that could help install it?

I can keep Firefox UI updates on Windows builders if need be.

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Unless there's any specific reason *not* to install it on XP, let's make sure it's available there too.

Comment 4

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

:markco indicated that the existing GPO should install on the testers with minimal change.

Comment 5

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Hi markco, this might become a very high priority soon since the Firefox update tests have become broken after some funsize changes which I don't believe will be reverted.
We would like to run Firefox UI tests on test machines and this is currently our only known blocker.

Comment 6

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Could you please give us an ETA? Thanks

Comment 7

[Mark Cornmesser [:markco]]

I plan on looking at this and testing the install Monday, so hopefully the deployment will follow shortly after.

Comment 8

[Mark Cornmesser [:markco]]

The GPO is ready to cover the 3 tester platforms. Do we want to do test pools, or do we just want to push it?

Comment 9

[Armen [:armenzg]]

We don't use Git anywhere so it should be safe.
Would you like me to look at the patch?
What is the path it is installing into?

Comment 10

[Armen [:armenzg]]

We don't use Git anywhere *on the testers*. I can't answer about the build machines.

Comment 11

[Mark Cornmesser [:markco]]

No patch currently. this done through Group Policy. 

The installation path is "C:\mozilla-build\git".  Which is where we are currently installing git on the builders.

Comment 12

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Yes, let's go ahead and deploy. That works. Thank you very much Mark!

If possible, for future Windows works, could we choose a path different to C:\mozilla-build? (for non-mozilla-build tools)
I recommend it that since mozilla-build upgrades overwrite the current installation which would make mozilla-build upgrades a bit more involved (I think - I'm not 100% sure).

Comment 13

[Mark Cornmesser [:markco]]

I have updated the Windows tester OUs. The machines should be picking up Git shortly. 

Mozilla-build will overwrite the individual directories it is installing. However, currently because of hand full of reasons, we are not updating the mozilla-build as whole package.