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Bug 354255

Summary:	[releng] git archive is returning old version of builder
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component:	Releng	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.releng-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	john.arthorne, Szymon.Brandys
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	0.3 M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Andrew Niefer

2011-08-09 10:18:47 EDT

The releng scripts use the following command to get the most recent builder from git:

git archive 
   --format=tar --verbose 
   --remote=/gitroot/orion/org.eclipse.orion.server.git
   --output orion-releng.tar  
   master 
   releng/org.eclipse.orion.releng

For some reason, when run via cronjob for an automated build, this command ends up returning an old builder, it looks like the builder tagged v20110705-0200 in git.

This builder is out of date due to bug 351192 and the build fails.

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2011-08-09 13:38:37 EDT

I was getting this frequently when you were away. It seemed intermittent when running from a crontab. When manually invoking git archive I wasn't able to reproduce the problem.

Comment 2 Andrew Niefer

2011-08-09 17:32:07 EDT

The shell script is already cloning the git repo locally so that it can do the tag.  I didn't have time today, but I think I will change the script to copy the builder from that local cloned repo instead of doing the git archive.

(We didn't used to be cloning the repo locally, which is why we were using git archive).

Comment 3 Andrew Niefer

2011-08-10 11:56:47 EDT

bug 351740 and bug 353340 introduce support for per repo/project settings for fetch tag overrides.

We should update the basebuilder with this so that we can let platform ui use R3_development for nightly builds instead of having to keep master in sync with the dev branch.

This would mean a fetchTag property like
fetchTag=CVS=HEAD,GIT=master;git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git=R3_development



This would deserve a test build.

Comment 4 Andrew Niefer

2011-08-10 11:57:24 EDT

Please ignore comment #3, it was intended to be a new bug and is unrelated to orion.

Comment 5 Andrew Niefer

2011-08-10 12:01:05 EDT

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.server.git/commit/?id=3616def24a82ce41c39c87f2ee6f67bb439d2236

I have changed the builder to stop using git archive here.