[Buildbot-devel] Sharing SVN checkout between multiple builders

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Jan 12, 2008 8:10 AM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> is there a good way to share a single SVN checkout dir between
> multiple builders, without copying it?

You could, but it might be a bit of trouble.  One problem is that you
may want different builders building different revisions at the same
time.

I would implement this in a custom Source step, which has a "cache"
directory.  It would first update that cache directory to the
appropriate revision, then symlink the workdir to that cache
directory.

Like I said, it's a risky proposition due to possible race conditions.

Dustin

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