[Buildbot-devel] Triggered builds and git tags

[Dan Kegel]

It was a freshly added tag to a commit that had been there for a while.
I was rebuilding so the build script, which uses 'git describe' to
assign a version number, could get the new version number for the same
old bits.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Tim Hatch <tim at timhatch.com> wrote:
> Was this a brand new tag or an update?
>
> Tim
>
> Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>
>>FWIW, I noticed that if you have two tags at the same commit,
>>'git describe' will pick one of the two at random.
>>
>>But I don't think that's what was happening here, all the tags on this
>>tree are distinct.
>>
>>Hopefully it was just a brain fart.
>>
>>On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm using Triggers to daisy chain a build between mac, windows, and linux,
>>>> which is working great except for one thing: git tag skew.
>>>> I pushed a tag manually, then did a force build at the start of the
>>>> chain, and the new tag was not
>>>> visible on the last machine in the daisy chain.
>>>> Forcing the build a second time worked fine; this time the tag propagated.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some 'it's been too soon to do a git pull' timer I should be adjusting?
>>>> My tree stable timer is already set to 60 seconds.
>>>
>>> The tag wasn't available in *git*?  That sounds like a problem -
>>> propagation delay? - with your git server.
>>>
>>> Dustin
>>
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