diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8e2bb49d9df93..30f09deefd93a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,14 +5,6 @@ python:
 
 env:
   global:
-    - secure: "O04RU5QRKEDL/SrIWEsVe8O+1TxZqZQSa28Sd+Fz48NW/XddhefYyxzqcUXh\nk/NjWMqknJRQhApLolBianVpsE577OTllzlcyKn3nUL6hjOXcoszGaYray7S\niNGKGyO8xrtB/ZQDtmupz0ksK8sLoCTscdiGotFulczbx0zt+4g="
-    - secure: "PUJ9nC1/v2vpFUtELSoSjI53OHCVXfFTb8+t5lIGIqHtjUBkhiJSNPfCv8Bx\ndsdrx30qP8KsSceYzaa/bog6p8YNU1iih23S0KbjucutvA0LNHBTNvnxmjBR\nSJfKd5FmwnXvizRyghYBzmQ3NmGO7ADw2DBwKOhgGMqCHZ8Tlc8="
-    - secure: "IDcMrCCW+6pgJtsI3Q163OPc0iec1ogpitaqiRhHcrEBUCXZgVeclOeiZBlw\n/u+uGyW/O0NhHMaFXKB8BdDVwlQEEHv48syN6npS/A5+O6jriWKL4ozttOhE\npOlu+yLhHnEwx6wZVIHRTVn+t1GkOrjlBcjaQi+Z13G3XmDaSG8="
-    - secure: "Zu9aj0dTGpvMqT/HqBGQgDYl/v5ubC7lFwfE8Fqb0N1UVXqbpjXnNH/7oal1\nUsIT7klO++LWm+LxsP/A1FWENTSgdYe99JQtNyauW+0x5YR1JTuDJ8atDgx9\nSq66CaVpS5t+ov7UVm2bKSUX+1S8+8zGbIDADrMxEzYEMF7WoGM="
-    - secure: "AfIvLxvCxj22zrqg3ejGf/VePKT2AyGT9erYzlKpBS0H8yi5Pp1MfmJjhaR4\n51zBtzqHPHiIEY6ZdE06o9PioMWkXS+BqJNrxGSbt1ltxgOFrxW5zOpwiFGZ\nZOv1YeFkuPf8PEsWT7615mdydqTQT7B0pqUKK/d6aka4TQ/tg5Q="
-    - secure: "EM4ySBUusReNu7H1QHXvjnP/J1QowvfpwEBmjysYxJuq7KcG8HhhlfpUF+Gh\nLBzLak9QBA67k4edhum3qtKuJR5cHuja3+zuV8xmx096B/m96liJFTrwZpea\n58op3W6ZULctEpQNgIkyae20bjxl4f99JhZRUlonoPfx/rBIMFc="
-    - secure: "pgMYS/6MQqDGb58qdzTJesvAMmcJWTUEEM8gf9rVbfqfxceOL4Xpx8siR9B2\nC4U4MW1cHMPP3RFEb4Jy0uK49aHH10snwZY1S84YPPllpH5ZFXVdN68OayNj\nh4k5N/2hhaaQuJ6Uh8v8s783ye4oYTOW5RJUFqQu4QdG4IkTIMs="
-
     - NOSE_ARGS="not slow" UPLOAD=true
 
 matrix:
@@ -41,7 +33,6 @@ before_install:
   # - export APT_ARGS=-qq # comment this to debug travis install issues
   # - set -x # enable this to see bash commands
   - export ZIP_FLAGS=-q # comment this to debug travis install issues
-  - source ci/envars.sh # we need to source this to bring in the envars
   - ci/before_install.sh
   - python -V
 
diff --git a/ci/before_install.sh b/ci/before_install.sh
index 677ddfa642f80..e4376e1bf21c2 100755
--- a/ci/before_install.sh
+++ b/ci/before_install.sh
@@ -10,27 +10,4 @@ echo "inside $0"
 # overview
 sudo apt-get update $APT_ARGS # run apt-get update for all versions
 
-if  $PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER ; then
-    echo "Faster? well... I'll try."
-
-    if $CACHE_FILE_AVAILABLE ;  then
-        echo retrieving "$CACHE_FILE_URL";
-
-        wget -q "$CACHE_FILE_URL" -O "/tmp/_$CYTHON_HASH.zip";
-        unzip $ZIP_FLAGS /tmp/_"$CYTHON_HASH.zip" -d "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR";
-        rm -f /tmp/_"$CYTHON_HASH.zip"
-        # copy cythonized c files over
-        cp -R "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR"/pandas/*.c pandas/
-        cp -R "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR"/pandas/src/*.c pandas/src/
-    fi;
-    echo "VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE=$VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE"
-    if $VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE ; then
-        echo "getting venv"
-        wget -q $VENV_FILE_URL -O  "/tmp/venv.zip";
-        sudo unzip $ZIP_FLAGS -o /tmp/venv.zip -d "/";
-        sudo chown travis -R "$VIRTUAL_ENV"
-        rm -f /tmp/_"$CYTHON_HASH.zip"
-    fi;
-fi
-
 true # never fail because bad things happened here
diff --git a/ci/envars.sh b/ci/envars.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 2b4cacfd96fe4..0000000000000
--- a/ci/envars.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# This must be sourced by .travis.yml, so any envars exported here will
-# be available to the rest of the build stages
-
-# - computes a hash based on the cython files in the codebade
-# - retrieves the decrypted key if any for all whitelisted forks
-# - checks whether the user optd int to use the cache
-# - if so, check for availablity of cache files on the server, based on hash
-# - set envars to control what the following scripts do
-
-# at most one of these will decrypt, so the end result is that $STORE_KEY
-# either holds a single key or does not
-export STORE_KEY="$STORE_KEY0""$STORE_KEY1""$STORE_KEY2""$STORE_KEY3""$STORE_KEY4"
-export STORE_KEY="$STORE_KEY""$STORE_KEY5""$STORE_KEY6""$STORE_KEY7"
-
-export CYTHON_HASH=$(find pandas | grep -P '\.(pyx|pxd)$'  | sort \
-     | while read N; do echo $(tail -n+1 $N | md5sum ) ;done | md5sum| cut -d ' ' -f 1)
-
-export CYTHON_HASH=$CYTHON_HASH-$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION
-
-# where the cache files live on the server
-export CACHE_FILE_URL="https://cache27-pypandas.rhcloud.com/static/$STORE_KEY/$CYTHON_HASH.zip"
-export VENV_FILE_URL="https://cache27-pypandas.rhcloud.com/static/$STORE_KEY/venv-$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION.zip"
-export CACHE_FILE_STORE_URL="https://cache27-pypandas.rhcloud.com/store/$STORE_KEY"
-
-echo "Hashing:"
-find pandas | grep -P '\.(pyx|pxd)$'
-echo "Key: $CYTHON_HASH"
-
-export CACHE_FILE_AVAILABLE=false
-export VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE=false
-export PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER=false
-
-# check whether the user opted in to use the cache via commit message
-if [ x"$(git log --format='%B' -n 1 | grep PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER | wc -l)" != x"0" ]; then
-    export PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER=true
-fi;
-if [ x"$(git log --format='%B' -n 1 | grep PTF | wc -l)" != x"0" ]; then
-    export PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER=true
-fi;
-
-if $PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER; then
-
-    # check whether the files exists on the server
-    curl -s -f -I "$CACHE_FILE_URL"  #  silent, don;t expose key
-    if [ x"$?" == x"0" ] ; then
-        export CACHE_FILE_AVAILABLE=true;
-    fi
-
-
-    curl -s -f -I "$VENV_FILE_URL" #  silent, don;t expose key
-    if [ x"$?" == x"0" ] ; then
-        export VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE=true;
-    fi
-
-    # the pandas build cache machinery needs this set, and the directory created
-    export BUILD_CACHE_DIR="/tmp/build_cache"
-    mkdir "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR"
-fi;
-
-# debug
-echo "PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER=$PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER"
-echo "CACHE_FILE_AVAILABLE=$CACHE_FILE_AVAILABLE"
-echo "VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE=$VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE"
-
-true
diff --git a/ci/install.sh b/ci/install.sh
index 294db286a1001..60ea5643c6ad2 100755
--- a/ci/install.sh
+++ b/ci/install.sh
@@ -45,102 +45,60 @@ if [ x"$FULL_DEPS" == x"true" ] ; then
    fi
 fi
 
-# Everything installed inside this clause into site-packages
-# will get included in the cached venv downloaded from the net
-# in PTF mode
-if ( ! $VENV_FILE_AVAILABLE ); then
-    echo "Running full monty"
-    # Hard Deps
-    pip install $PIP_ARGS  nose python-dateutil pytz
+# Hard Deps
+pip install $PIP_ARGS nose python-dateutil pytz
+pip install $PIP_ARGS cython
+
+if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION} == "3.3" ]; then # should be >=3,3
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.7.0
+elif [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION} == "3.2" ]; then
+    # sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS install python3-numpy; # 1.6.2 or precise
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.6.1
+else
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.6.1
+fi
+
+# Optional Deps
+if [ x"$FULL_DEPS" == x"true" ]; then
+    echo "Installing FULL_DEPS"
     pip install $PIP_ARGS  cython
 
-    if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION} == "3.3" ]; then # should be >=3,3
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.7.0
-    elif [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION} == "3.2" ]; then
-        # sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS install python3-numpy; # 1.6.2 or precise
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.6.1
+    if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "2" ]; then
+        pip install $PIP_ARGS xlwt
+        pip install $PIP_ARGS bottleneck
+        pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr==2.0.1
+        pip install $PIP_ARGS tables==2.3.1
     else
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.6.1
+        pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr
+        pip install $PIP_ARGS tables
     fi
 
-    # Optional Deps
-    if [ x"$FULL_DEPS" == x"true" ]; then
-        echo "Installing FULL_DEPS"
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS  cython
-
-        if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "2" ]; then
-            pip install $PIP_ARGS xlwt
-            pip install $PIP_ARGS bottleneck
-            pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr==2.0.1
-            pip install $PIP_ARGS tables==2.3.1
-        else
-            pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr
-            pip install $PIP_ARGS tables
-        fi
-
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS matplotlib
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS openpyxl
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS xlrd>=0.9.0
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pytseries/scikits.timeseries/0.91.3/scikits.timeseries-0.91.3.tar.gz?r='
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS patsy
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS html5lib
-
-        if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "3" ]; then
-          sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS remove python3-lxml
-        elif [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "2" ]; then
-          sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS remove python-lxml
-        fi
-
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS lxml
-        # fool statsmodels into thinking pandas was already installed
-        # so it won't refuse to install itself. We want it in the zipped venv
-
-        mkdir  $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas
-        touch $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas/__init__.py
-        echo "version='0.10.0-phony'" >  $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas/version.py
-        pip install $PIP_ARGS git+git://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels@c9062e43b8a5f7385537ca95#egg=statsmodels
-
-        rm -Rf $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas # scrub phoney pandas
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS matplotlib
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS openpyxl
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS xlrd>=0.9.0
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pytseries/scikits.timeseries/0.91.3/scikits.timeseries-0.91.3.tar.gz?r='
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS patsy
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS html5lib
+
+    if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "3" ]; then
+      sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS remove python3-lxml
+    elif [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "2" ]; then
+      sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS remove python-lxml
     fi
 
-    # pack up the venv and cache it
-    if [ x"$STORE_KEY" != x"" ] && $UPLOAD && $PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER ; then
-        VENV_FNAME="venv-$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION.zip"
-
-        zip $ZIP_FLAGS -r "$HOME/$VENV_FNAME" $SITE_PKG_DIR/
-        ls -l "$HOME/$VENV_FNAME"
-        echo "posting venv"
-        # silent, don't expose key
-        curl -s --form upload=@"$HOME/$VENV_FNAME" "$CACHE_FILE_STORE_URL/$VENV_FNAME"
-    fi
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS lxml
+    # fool statsmodels into thinking pandas was already installed
+    # so it won't refuse to install itself.
 
-fi;
+    mkdir  $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas
+    touch $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas/__init__.py
+    echo "version='0.10.0-phony'" >  $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas/version.py
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS git+git://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels@c9062e43b8a5f7385537ca95#egg=statsmodels
 
-#build and install pandas
-if [ x"$BUILD_CACHE_DIR" != x"" ]; then
-    scripts/use_build_cache.py -d
-    python setup.py install;
-else
-   python setup.py build_ext install
+    rm -Rf $SITE_PKG_DIR/pandas # scrub phoney pandas
 fi
 
-# package pandas build artifacts and send them home
-# that's everything the build cache (scripts/use_build_cache.py)
-# stored during the build (.so, pyx->.c and 2to3)
-if  (! $CACHE_FILE_AVAILABLE) ; then
- if [ x"$STORE_KEY" != x"" ] && $UPLOAD && $PLEASE_TRAVIS_FASTER ; then
-     echo "Posting artifacts"
-     strip  "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR/*" &> /dev/null
-     echo  "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR"
-     cd "$BUILD_CACHE_DIR"/
-     zip -r $ZIP_FLAGS "$HOME/$CYTHON_HASH".zip *
-     cd "$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR"
-     pwd
-     zip "$HOME/$CYTHON_HASH".zip $(find pandas | grep -P '\.(pyx|pxd)$' | sed -r 's/.(pyx|pxd)$/.c/')
-
-     # silent, don't expose key
-     curl   --connect-timeout 5 -s --form upload=@"$HOME/$CYTHON_HASH".zip "$CACHE_FILE_STORE_URL/$CYTHON_HASH.zip"
- fi
-fi
+# build pandas
+python setup.py build_ext install
 
 true
diff --git a/vb_suite/test_perf.py b/vb_suite/test_perf.py
index 2a2a5c9643c75..d019af3370ba9 100755
--- a/vb_suite/test_perf.py
+++ b/vb_suite/test_perf.py
@@ -37,18 +37,10 @@
 import random
 import numpy as np
 
-import pandas as pd
 from pandas import DataFrame, Series
 
-try:
-    import git # gitpython
-except Exception:
-    print("Error: Please install the `gitpython` package\n")
-    sys.exit(1)
-
 from suite import REPO_PATH
 
-VB_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 DEFAULT_MIN_DURATION = 0.01
 HEAD_COL="head[ms]"
 BASE_COL="base[ms]"
@@ -65,14 +57,6 @@
 parser.add_argument('-t', '--target-commit',
                     help='The commit to compare against the baseline (default: HEAD).',
                     type=str)
-parser.add_argument('--base-pickle',
-                    help='name of pickle file with timings data generated by a former `-H -d FILE` run. '\
-                    'filename must be of the form <hash>-*.* or specify --base-commit seperately',
-                    type=str)
-parser.add_argument('--target-pickle',
-                    help='name of pickle file with timings data generated by a former `-H -d FILE` run '\
-                    'filename must be of the form <hash>-*.* or specify --target-commit seperately',
-                    type=str)
 parser.add_argument('-m', '--min-duration',
                     help='Minimum duration (in ms) of baseline test for inclusion in report (default: %.3f).' % DEFAULT_MIN_DURATION,
                     type=float,
@@ -85,7 +69,7 @@
                     metavar="FNAME",
                     dest='outdf',
                     default=None,
-                    help='Name of file to df.to_pickle() the result table into. Will overwrite')
+                    help='Name of file to df.save() the result table into. Will overwrite')
 parser.add_argument('-r', '--regex',
                     metavar="REGEX",
                     dest='regex',
@@ -120,7 +104,8 @@
 parser.add_argument('-a', '--affinity',
                     metavar="a",
                     dest='affinity',
-                    default=None,
+                    default=1,
+                    type=int,
                     help='set processor affinity of processm by default bind to cpu/core #1 only'
                              'requires the "affinity" python module , will raise Warning otherwise'  )
 
@@ -221,74 +206,30 @@ def profile_comparative(benchmarks):
 
         head_res = get_results_df(db, h_head)
         baseline_res = get_results_df(db, h_baseline)
-
-        report_comparative(head_res,baseline_res)
-
+        ratio = head_res['timing'] / baseline_res['timing']
+        totals = DataFrame({HEAD_COL:head_res['timing'],
+                                BASE_COL:baseline_res['timing'],
+                                'ratio':ratio,
+                                'name':baseline_res.name},
+                                columns=[HEAD_COL, BASE_COL, "ratio", "name"])
+        totals = totals.ix[totals[HEAD_COL] > args.min_duration]
+            # ignore below threshold
+        totals = totals.dropna(
+        ).sort("ratio").set_index('name')  # sort in ascending order
+
+        h_msg =   repo.messages.get(h_head, "")
+        b_msg =   repo.messages.get(h_baseline, "")
+
+        print_report(totals,h_head=h_head,h_msg=h_msg,
+                     h_baseline=h_baseline,b_msg=b_msg)
+
+        if args.outdf:
+            prprint("The results DataFrame was written to '%s'\n" %  args.outdf)
+            totals.save(args.outdf)
     finally:
         #        print("Disposing of TMP_DIR: %s" % TMP_DIR)
         shutil.rmtree(TMP_DIR)
 
-def prep_pickle_for_total(df, agg_name='median'):
-    """
-    accepts a datafram resulting from invocation with -H -d o.pickle
-    If multiple data columns are present (-N was used), the
-    `agg_name` attr of the datafram will be used to reduce
-    them to a single value per vbench, df.median is used by defa
-    ult.
-
-    Returns a datadrame of the form expected by prep_totals
-    """
-    def prep(df):
-        agg = getattr(df,agg_name)
-        df = DataFrame(agg(1))
-        cols = list(df.columns)
-        cols[0]='timing'
-        df.columns=cols
-        df['name'] = list(df.index)
-        return df
-
-    return prep(df)
-
-def prep_totals(head_res, baseline_res):
-    """
-    Each argument should be a dataframe with  'timing' and 'name' columns
-    where name is the name of the vbench.
-
-    returns a 'totals' dataframe, suitable as input for print_report.
-    """
-    head_res, baseline_res = head_res.align(baseline_res)
-    ratio = head_res['timing'] / baseline_res['timing']
-    totals = DataFrame({HEAD_COL:head_res['timing'],
-                        BASE_COL:baseline_res['timing'],
-                        'ratio':ratio,
-                        'name':baseline_res.name},
-                        columns=[HEAD_COL, BASE_COL, "ratio", "name"])
-    totals = totals.ix[totals[HEAD_COL] > args.min_duration]
-    # ignore below threshold
-    totals = totals.dropna(
-    ).sort("ratio").set_index('name')  # sort in ascending order
-    return totals
-
-def report_comparative(head_res,baseline_res):
-    try:
-        r=git.Repo(VB_DIR)
-    except:
-        import pdb
-        pdb.set_trace()
-
-    totals = prep_totals(head_res,baseline_res)
-
-    h_head = args.target_commit
-    h_baseline = args.base_commit
-    h_msg =  r.commit(h_head).message.strip()
-    b_msg =  r.commit(h_baseline).message.strip()
-
-    print_report(totals,h_head=h_head,h_msg=h_msg,
-             h_baseline=h_baseline,b_msg=b_msg)
-
-    if args.outdf:
-        prprint("The results DataFrame was written to '%s'\n" %  args.outdf)
-        totals.to_pickle(args.outdf)
 
 def profile_head_single(benchmark):
     import gc
@@ -364,7 +305,7 @@ def profile_head(benchmarks):
 
     if args.outdf:
         prprint("The results DataFrame was written to '%s'\n" %  args.outdf)
-        DataFrame(results).to_pickle(args.outdf)
+        DataFrame(results).save(args.outdf)
 
 def print_report(df,h_head=None,h_msg="",h_baseline=None,b_msg=""):
 
@@ -447,23 +388,18 @@ def main():
     random.seed(args.seed)
     np.random.seed(args.seed)
 
-    if args.base_pickle and args.target_pickle:
-        baseline_res = prep_pickle_for_total(pd.read_pickle(args.base_pickle))
-        target_res = prep_pickle_for_total(pd.read_pickle(args.target_pickle))
-
-        report_comparative(target_res, baseline_res)
-        sys.exit(0)
-
-    if args.affinity is not None:
-        try:
-            import affinity
-
-            affinity.set_process_affinity_mask(0,args.affinity)
-            assert affinity.get_process_affinity_mask(0) == args.affinity
-            print("CPU affinity set to %d" % args.affinity)
-        except ImportError:
-            print("-a/--afinity specified, but the 'affinity' module is not available, aborting.\n")
-            sys.exit(1)
+    try:
+        import affinity
+        affinity.set_process_affinity_mask(0,args.affinity)
+        assert affinity.get_process_affinity_mask(0) == args.affinity
+        print("CPU affinity set to %d" % args.affinity)
+    except ImportError:
+        import warnings
+        print("\n\n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n"+
+                      "The 'affinity' module is not available, results may be unreliable\n" +
+                      "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\n"
+            )
+        time.sleep(2)
 
     print("\n")
     prprint("LOG_FILE = %s" % args.log_file)
@@ -543,39 +479,10 @@ def inner(repo_path):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     args = parser.parse_args()
-    if (not args.head
-        and not (args.base_commit and args.target_commit)
-        and not (args.base_pickle and args.target_pickle)):
+    if not args.head and (not args.base_commit and not args.target_commit):
         parser.print_help()
-        sys.exit(1)
-    elif ((args.base_pickle or args.target_pickle) and not
-        (args.base_pickle and args.target_pickle)):
-        print("Must specify Both --base-pickle and --target-pickle.")
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    if ((args.base_pickle or args.target_pickle) and not
-        (args.base_commit and args.target_commit)):
-        if not args.base_commit:
-            print("base_commit not specified, Assuming base_pickle is named <commit>-foo.*")
-            args.base_commit = args.base_pickle.split('-')[0]
-        if not args.target_commit:
-            print("target_commit not specified, Assuming target_pickle is named <commit>-foo.*")
-            args.target_commit = args.target_pickle.split('-')[0]
-
-    import warnings
-    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',category=FutureWarning)
-    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',category=DeprecationWarning)
-
-    if args.base_commit and args.target_commit:
-        print("Verifying specified commits exist in repo...")
-        r=git.Repo(VB_DIR)
-        for c in [ args.base_commit, args.target_commit ]:
-            try:
-                msg =  r.commit(c).message.strip()
-            except git.BadObject:
-                print("The commit '%s' was not found, aborting" % c)
-                sys.exit(1)
-            else:
-                print("%s: %s" % (c,msg))
-
-    main()
+    else:
+        import warnings
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',category=FutureWarning)
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',category=DeprecationWarning)
+        main()