[Buildbot-devel] Problem with build.steps.source.Git on Windows with revision from sourcestamp

[Russell Gallop]

I am having some problems using the Git source step.

I have previously been using it successfully like so:

checkoutstep=Git(repourl=gitrepo,

                 mode="clobber",

                 alwaysUseLatest=True,

                 workdir="build/repo")

 which checks out the HEAD of my repository.

I now wish to use it as follows:

checkoutstep=Git(repourl=gitrepo,

                 mode="clobber",

                 workdir="build/repo")

To use the revision in the SourceStamp. This is okay on Linux and Mac e.g.

Initialized empty Git repository in /local/buildbot/slave/centos_4.8_32bit/build/repo/.git/

>From git://git/repo/

...

HEAD is now at f269c8f Comment

f269c8f2cab29a83b4ab0914bba70974ae998b9f


But on Windows I get:

Initialized empty Git repository in C:/buildbot/slave/windows_xp_32bit_gittest/build/repo/.git/

fatal: Could not parse object 'f269c8f2cab29a83b4ab0914bba70974ae998b9f'.

HEAD

fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

Use '--' to separate paths from revisions


I am using a PBChangeSource with git_buildbot.py (as GitPoller didn't 
work for me) and my SourceStamp has:

Repository    git://git/repo/.git

Branch    master

Revision    f269c8f2cab29a83b4ab0914bba70974ae998b9f

Changes    see below


I am using buildbot 0.8.2 and buildslave 0.8.3 on windows.

Any ideas gratefully appreciated.

Russ