[Buildbot-devel] Retrieving build results

[Brian Warner]

> On my copy of buildbot I edited ShellCommand to include information about
> the build (e.g. the revision number, so I could use in sync, commit, and
> build-specific files) in environment variables.  I suppose if I supported
> try builds and branch builds I would be able to add to those environment
> variables what type of build is being done, and change the behavior of the
> copy script to ignore try and branch builds.
> 
> Sorry I dont have the patch for that handy, I don't recall whether i sent it
> to Brian.

I don't remember seeing it, unfortunately. It sounds useful.. I'd be happy to
accept something like that into buildbot, perhaps with a flag to turn it on
or off (since I'm not keen on introducing new variables into the buildslave's
environment without explicit instructions in the master.cfg file).

cheers,
 -Brian