[Buildbot-devel] Git builder silently drops back to HEAD (master) if a branch isn't found

[Chris Morgan]

Hello.

Buildbox 0.8.6p1 here. Its a great tool but I had a question about
configuration.

I can't seem to figure out how to configure a git builder to fail if
the specified branch isn't found. We've had several cases where people
have plugged in an invalid branch, or a partial sha in place of the
branch field. The build runs and completes without error but you can
see from the log that it didn't do what was expected:

Cloning into '.'...
warning: Remote branch aa7391a not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead


I've looked through the manual and can't seem to find a setting for
this. Google search hasn't turned up anything either.

Is there some way to cause the clone to fail out instead of falling
back to HEAD or master?

Chris