[Buildbot-devel] source.SVN: Share source directory?, was Re: Some questions

[Charles Lepple]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Dennis Schridde <devurandom at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As requested by Ben Finney, I split up my questions into seperate emails.
>
> Can multiple buildbot.steps.source.SVN with mode=copy share a source
> directory?

I am not an expert on this, but I seem to remember seeing a dot-file
in the checked-out working copy that carries some meta-information
about the checkout. So sharing a source directory would probably not
work if a later source.SVN step stomps on that file.

> (Or not have one at all, if the svn server is local and can be
> accessed through file:/// anyway?)

The SVN fsfs repository is not organized in such a way that you can
use it directly by copying - you still need to run 'svn checkout' even
if it is local.

Dustin's mode=clobber suggestion will probably save some time if the
repository is local, though.

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- Charles Lepple