[Buildbot-devel] Enable force build of arbitrary revision

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:51:37PM -0700, Brian Warner wrote:
> >From: Brad Hards <bradh at frogmouth.net>
> 
> > During investigation in support of the SVN rework I recently suggested,
> > I implemented a simple change that allows the ability to force build of an
> > arbitrary revision from the web interface.
> > 
> > This is a bit nasty, in that I'm modifying a deprecated API, but it might 
> > still be of general use.
> 
> I'm incorporating parts of your patch in now, during the build-on-branch
> developement I'm trying to finish up before 0.7.0 can get released. If
> enabled, you'll be able to build a specific branch and/or revision from web
> page or via the IRC bot.

Any chance we could get a "redo last build" button while you're in
there?  "build HEAD" doesn't work for us (because we have no unique
head), and I'm a little dubious about putting up a "build arbitrary
revision" button.  But "try again" would be perfect for common use
cases like testing a new slave or getting proper results for a build
that failed due to slave disconnect.

-- Nathaniel

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