[Buildbot-devel] repository + Source steps

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Tobias Oberstein
<tobias.oberstein at tavendo.de> wrote:
> http://github.com/oberstet/buildbot/commit/7ae6b064869fcb0a4134353c3767d39099f1918e
>
> allows one to control a build from the commit message:
>
> git commit -a -m "Bla, bla, bla. (buildbot release {'builderNames': ['pc-winxp', 'se-vivaz', 'nokia-n900']})"

We do this at Zmanda.  Some of our devs commit as a way of moving code
from checkout to checkout, so testing every commit would be silly.
For those, we can add BUILDME to force a build.  On Amanda, we
ordinarily test every commit, but sometimes a trivial commit does not
warrant a full build, so we add NOTEST to the commit message to
suppress it.

It works pretty well, but has the downside of cluttering up the logfiles.

Dustin

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