in reply to How to merge two different coverage reports remotely

Isn't it possible to create a directory /a/b with a symlink to /x/y/repo so that the paths are actually the same? Then, you should be able to merge the databases, too.

I was able to make it work, but only for a very simple script. Make sure to backup or commit the coverage reports so you don't have to rerun the scripts every time you discover a problem.

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Re^2: How to merge two different coverage reports remotely
by pryrt (Abbot) on May 26, 2021 at 15:10 UTC
    Then, you should be able to merge the databases, too. I was able to make it work, but only for a very simple script.

    From a high level, how did you go about doing it? Is it just concatenating some or all of the text files in the cover_db directory? Or do you have to do a manual interleave of data within each file? Or worse, a manual interleave-and-add for counts for certain lines of code? Is it just a subset of files that you have to merge?

    Sorry, since I've never looked into merging them before, or really even at the raw data -- I always just look at the HTML report at the end -- I wouldn't know where to start for the merge. Given the original question, it wouldn't surprise me if the OP was in the same boat as I am. So hints as to how to get started with the merge would be nice. (I am bookmarking this thread, since I think some of my repos might get better coverage numbers if I am able to eventually merge the linux and windows results; I'm reasonably confident that between the CI systems, I have full coverage, but being able to prove it would feel nice.)

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      No, I just copied the cover_db from one remote to a directory and ran 
      cover cover_db downloaded/cover_db

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