[Buildbot-devel] receiving a sendchange message: getting the list of changed files

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Matthew Morse <matt at apple.com> wrote:
> So, the message (in a ShellCommand step) looks like:
>     buildbot sendchange --master some.server.com:9977 --auth <name:pwd>
> --who <initiating builder>  output_directory
> The output_directory path is sent in the message, but I don't (after much
> doc perusal and googling) understand how to get that directory information
> in the receiving buildmaster.

Mozilla does almost the same thing, oddly.  If you write a custom
scheduler on the test master, you can look at change.files to find
your output_directory.  But Amber's right - a property is the better
solution.

Dustin