[Buildbot-devel] How to dynamically monitor trunk plus multiple branches in svn

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:20 AM, David Young <david.young at db.com> wrote:
> Well, this seems to work but I don't understand why. I'm even able to force
> a build via IRC on both branches and the trunk. Can't find a lot in the docs
> about doing this kind of thing...

It's to work around the way SVN doesn't treat projects, branches,
tags, trees, etc., as first-class objects, but lets you implement them
however you'd like in a filesystem-like tree.  So you need to write
one function to convert an SVN path into project, branch, etc., and
then another function (or just use Interpolate) to convert back for
the SVN step.

Dustin