[Buildbot-devel] Working directory inconsistencies

[Ian Bell]

Something that I find very confusing when working with buildbot is dealing
with what the root path is for a command.

For instance, a git checkout step will by default (as far as I can tell),
check out into the build folder.  Then any subsequent ShellCommand steps
have as their root path the root directory of the builder, to which you
need to append build all the time.

But DirectoryUpload uses a path that is relative to the build folder, not
the root directory. (This seems like a bug to me)

The documentation of this behavior is non-existent.  So I would propose at
least that the checkout location of git should be documented, and perhaps
able to be changed.

Can we bring some sanity to the root folders?
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