[petsc-dev] git status to test list

[Barry Smith]

> On Jul 6, 2020, at 3:48 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
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> Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> writes:
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>>  We should be more clever than checking just examples but also check source code. If, for example, only KSP is changed then tests could skip the sys/vec/mat levels saving time.
>> 
>>  If we did this in the pipeline they could be significantly faster; all the time saved not testing sys to mat for Matt's changes :-)
>> 
>>  Is there a fallacy here?
> 
> I think we could pretty readily do this at the granularity of package. Significantly harder (would need to interface with a coverage tool) to do it at finer granularity.
> 
> What fraction of our testing time is currently at petscmat and below?

  No idea, but could easily be 1/3