[Buildbot-devel] Source step's clobbering part 2

[Axel Hecht]

Hi,

I guess that the clobber-on-branch-change is really a legacy thing, yeah.
Not that I know, but it sounds feasible.

Regarding replacing clobber with purge, I'd rather not. hg itself does end
up with corrupted repositories every now and then, in versions prior to 1.0
actually quite frequently. Being able to really clobber when you clobber
sounds like the right thing to do for me.

Axel

2009/3/22 Marcus Lindblom <macke at yar.nu>

> Hi all,
>
> This is regarding a ticket with patch that removes clobbering on
> inrepo-branch change with Mercurial:
>
> See http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/462.
>
> This is basically a rehash of a previous thread:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.buildbot.devel/3899
>
> The tests force clobbering (hence I added it when finalizing #187), yet
> users doesn't seem to want it. (Both Axel and 'even' suggests using 'hg
> update --clean').
>
> What is the rationale for clobbering on branch change? Is it legacy due
> to CVS?
>
> I'd prefer to see this resolved by fixing
> http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/412, either by using 'hg purge' as that
> says, or just delete everything except the '.hg' dir.
>
> I suppose similar things goes for Git, Bzr, Darcs and other DVCS:es that
> keep everything in one dir?
>
> Ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> /Marcus
>
>
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