[Buildbot-devel] Big fat buildbot example

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> I was getting dizzy from all the little json files, and merged them
> into a single master.json.
> I also added vim as an example project, which meant adding support for
> Mercurial.
>
> But all is not well; although the initial force build goes fine,
> the HgPoller subsequently goes absolutely bonkers, and
> starts telling me about every change since 2004.
> (This is with buildbot-0.8.7.)
>
> Looking around for bug reports, I found
> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/1030
> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2307
> which was at least amusing.  (If HgPoller hasn't been merged, what am
> I running?)
>
> Can someone have a look and let me know what I missed?

Perhaps nothing!  I closed both of those bugs - #2307 was merged in
0.8.7 but the bug wasn't closed (so that's what you're using).  #1030
I just closed as wontfix.

I suspect what you're seeing is a bug in the hgpoller, where when it
creates a new repository and pulls into it, it dutifully reports on
all of those changes.  The GitPoller is smart enough to skip such
changes and just start up at the point where it cloned.

Dustin