[Buildbot-devel] Spare checkout leads to deleting build directory and another checkout

[Tom Prince]

"Derek Graham (ML)" <derek.m.graham+ml at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm doing a sparse check-out using the following bit of code:

What version of buildbot (in particular, the buildslave) are you using?
Some older versions kept the information on what was checked out (which
is used to see whether to clobber the repo) in a single location, so
didn't support multiple source steps.

In any case, if you are using at least v0.8.5, you could use the new
master-side source steps, which look at the repository to find the
current state (rather than recording it).

> What is the proper method to perform an sparse update?

I don't think there is a documented way to do this (or if the code
supports it). If it doesn't, this would certainly be something that
could be added.

  Tom