[Buildbot-devel] How to do incremental building with buildbot.steps.Source.Git ?

[Marc-Antoine Ruel]

I uses -x only if ignore_ignores is True in 0.7.12 branch.

Maybe worth adding a flag "always_purge" like the one I added in SVN,
defaulting to True to not change current behavior.

See
http://github.com/djmitche/buildbot/blob/master/buildbot/slave/commands.py

M-A

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>   I want to do incremental build with Git repos. That's I want to keep the
> building result and just building the files changed since last building.
> So I write my master.cfg as the following:
>
> oe_oe_inc_nightly_glibc.addStep(source.Git(repourl=repository,
> branch=oebranch, mode='update',retry=(30,5)))
> /*use mode='update' to tell buildbot I want to keep the building result
> (object files, temp files) and just build the files changed since last
> building*/
>
>  But I found every time, buildbot will delete the whole building result
> and build it completely. From the log file, I saw:
> 1, buildbot first delete all previous building result using the following
> command:
>    git clean -f -d -x
> 2. Then it builds the project completely.
>
> My question is how to do incremental building with Git? It seems that the
> mode='update' of Git does not work as expected.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
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> Guo Hongruan, Embedded Linux Consultant
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