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

[Amber Yust]

I believe you are correct that it is not currently possible to disable the
clobber fallback - could you open a ticket on buildbot.net to add in such an
option? Thanks!

~Amber

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Blaize Rhodes
<blaize.rhodes at eyecon.com.au>wrote:

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> hi everyone,
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>     I'm running buildbot with an svn revision control system on winxp.
> Periodically the svn update step fails.  Then  maybeDoVCFallback() is
> called in
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> \buildbot_slave-0.8.1-py2.6.egg\buildslave\vcs.py
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> Which does a clobber.  Which deletes my source tree.
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> Now, my problems are (or seem to be to me):
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>   i) when the SVN step fails it never recovers from this (it clobbers
> but doesn't seem to checkout the source when it does).
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>   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.
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> There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to turn this behaviour off - is
> that right?
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> (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).
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> cheers
>    blaize
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