[Buildbot-devel] buildbot/svn clobbering my build periodically

[Blaize Rhodes]

hi everyone,

     I'm running buildbot with an svn revision control system on winxp.  
Periodically the svn update step fails.  Then  maybeDoVCFallback() is 
called in

\buildbot_slave-0.8.1-py2.6.egg\buildslave\vcs.py

Which does a clobber.  Which deletes my source tree.

Now, my problems are (or seem to be to me):

   i) when the SVN step fails it never recovers from this (it clobbers 
but doesn't seem to checkout the source when it does).

   ii) I have a 4Gb svn trunk dir (yes that is crazy) and I'd much much 
much rather the SVN step just failed and continued to fail waiting on 
human intervention.

There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to turn this behaviour off - is 
that right?

(This seems to me a bug - but I can't add tickets to the bug tracker.  I 
hope I've got the whole etiquette thing right).

cheers
    blaize