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Git push for is publishing, not for integration
Posted on 08/12/2010 - 00:03 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
This may seem obvious, but don’t use git push like CVS commit. Repositories should be accepting commits by pulling them, not pushing them. CVS commit may be your integration strategy in a simple world without branches, but git push shouldn’t … Continue reading →...
asic verification, continuous integration, git
Git Workflow for ASIC Development
Posted on 12/01/2009 - 09:43 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
I recently purchased Pro Git at my local Chapters bookstore. After reading it, I discovered I could get it for free on-line, but that did not make me feel bad, on the contrary! In a week, I had taken it everywhere, and showed it to half a dozen people. The reason I blog about this book [...]...
asic verification, continuous integration
A Continuous Integration System For ASIC Development
Posted on 10/29/2009 - 20:35 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
I recently wrote an article published on AgileSOC titled A Continuous Integration System For ASIC Development. Hope you enjoy it! ...
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Missing Platform LSF commands part 2: btree
Posted on 08/13/2009 - 21:44 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
In a previous article, I discussed a hypothetical Platform LSF command, bwait, which would waits for LSF jobs to complete before returning. Another command that I would like to see in the Platform LSF suite of commands is a command to track parent-child relationship between jobs. Linux has a pstree command, LSF could have a [...]...
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Missing Platform LSF commands part 1: bwait
Posted on 06/10/2009 - 21:20 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
In the spirit of the POSIX wait command, Platform LSF should have a bwait command. It should work in a way similar to this: $ bwait 7372 7378 7123 7812 Passed: 7812 Failed: 7372 Failed: 7123 Passed: 7378 $ echo $? 1 Let’s explain how this hypothetical command would work. As its name suggests, it is a command that waits for LSF jobs [...]...
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Continous integration system using parallel make
Posted on 02/03/2009 - 20:20 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
In software design, a continuous integration system is a system for compiling and testing code on a continuous basis. When a build fails, the code is rejected and the owner notified. When the code is good (compiles okay and sanity tests pass), the code is accepted and is made available for distributing to the development [...]...
asic verification, bash, buildbot, continuous integration, gnu-make, software development
Wrapping ssh inside a script, and passing arbitrary commands to another program
Posted on 12/17/2008 - 23:46 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
A way to solve this problem, which I presented in a previous post, was found with the help from the gurus on #bash. The easy way to make this work is to save the arguments to a file, one per line, and read them back at the other end. Using bash syntax for arrays "${a[@]}” [...]...
asic verification, bash, ssh
Experiment in wrapping ssh inside a script and passing arbitrary commands to another program
Posted on 12/16/2008 - 00:52 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
Wrapping ssh inside a script and passing it arbitrary commands is hard. What I am trying to do here is to come up with a generic way to invoke an ssh-wrapper, have it record the $(pwd), perform an ssh to a remote host, and at the remote host, reposition inside $(pwd), and run an arbitrary, [...]...
asic verification, ssh
environment modules interaction with ssh
Posted on 12/15/2008 - 10:04 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
Environment modules is a nice software environment that lets you switch verilog simulator version very easily without having to edit your environment (.cshrc or other). But it seems to have some drawbacks. One of which is that is does not return proper exit status when it fails, making it hard to write scripts that fail [...]...
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The goto sin
Posted on 10/30/2008 - 22:49 by Martin d'Anjou from the site Ninja Verification
This is the best rant on the demise of the goto statement I have ever heard. It is from the Tango conference 2008 - Fibers talk by Mikola Lysenko. If you fast forward to 23 min 05 secs, you will hear this: One way you can think about states [in a state machine] is that they’re [...]...
d language, software development