Since Subversion allows to checkout just a sub-directory,

Maybe we can wontfix this, and try other more modern approaches like flatpak. Example:

6 year old in-your-face unreported bugs like these make me wonder how many people use Phabricator/Phorge :-(

It's not many, but this issue would be specific to anyone using Phabricator/Phorge for PHP development, which is likely Phab/Phorge itself is close to 100% of that market. And Phab/Phorge also itself has its own unit testing framework instead of PHPUnit.

As an aside, what do you think of https://github.com/campbsb/example-phorge-php-project - should we put a selection of example projects on https://we.phorge.it, either as individual repos, or one repo containing a bunch of examples, or somewhere in the arcanist repo ?

More complete test case added to D25472 which demonstrates the following error:

In T15667#14211, @Sten wrote:

how many people use Phabricator/Phorge :-(

I guess the documentation needs an update on page https://we.phorge.it/book/phorge/article/arcanist_lint_unit/ and/or https://we.phorge.it/book/phorge/article/arcanist_new_project/

6 year old in-your-face unreported bugs like these make me wonder how many people use Phabricator/Phorge :-(

Nix

Just for my curiosity, what lovely package are you crafting? APT? snap? Thanks :)

Another problem dramatically frequent for newcomers (at least in my office).

See https://we.phorge.it/T15533#11839 - the env-selecting code in ExecFuture has this logic: