[Buildbot-devel] GitPoller against kernel sources hangs with 0.8.3p1

[Amber Yust]

When you do "git clone git://
gitorious.org/~brainstorm/efikamx/efika-kernel.git", you're not specifying a
destination directory. Thus, git creates one (efika-kernel) and then creates
a .git folder *inside* of that new folder.

Buildbot invokes git clone with a destination folder explicitly specified
(source). Thus, git doesn't create a destination folder, but instead simply
initializes the repository inside the source folder as requested. So again,
it is very much expected that there will not be an "efika-kernel" folder. If
you wish to try this yourself, run the following command:

git clone git://gitorious.org/~brainstorm/efikamx/efika-kernel.git source

Note the 'source' on the end.

Buildbot knows about this explicitly, and thus expects the directory
structure to look like "source/.git" afterwards, and that is what later
steps in the Git source process use when in "copy" mode.

~Amber

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, brainstorm <braincode at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Amber Yust <ayust at yelp.com> wrote:
> > No, just creating 'source' is the expected behavior (as if a destination
> > directory name of source were passed to git clone).
>
>
>
> I wasn't referring to "source" dir but to ".git" instead of
> "efika-kernel". In other words, "git clone
> git://gitorious.org/~brainstorm/efikamx/efika-kernel.git" generates
> "efika-kernel" directory, while buildbot (slave) generates ".git"
> under source (no trace of "efika-kernel).
>
> It may be just cosmetic, but maybe next steps will not be able to find
> the sources ?
>
>
>
> > Are there any errors in the twistd.log? How long does cloning usually
> take?
>
>
>
> No errors, just the git step executing correctly and timing out:
>
> 2011-01-13 23:10:26+0100 [-] ShellCommand._startCommand
> 2011-01-13 23:10:26+0100 [-]  /usr/bin/git fetch -t
> http://git.gitorious.org/~brainstorm/efikamx/efika-kernel.git +master
> 2011-01-13 23:10:26+0100 [-]   in dir
> /var/lib/buildbot/romanvg/runtests/source (timeout 1200 secs)
> 2011-01-13 23:10:26+0100 [-]   watching logfiles {}
>
> The clone usually takes less than 10min.
>
>
>
> > ~Amber (sent from Droid, please forgive any typos!)
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2011 7:08 AM, "brainstorm" <braincode at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
>
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