How to have a buildbot GitPoller change source watch all branches?

Question

I'm looking for a way to have a GitPoller changesource watch all branches instead of just one.

For now, either I specify branch='some branch' in the GitPoller constructor, or it defaults to master.

Even better would be to be able to specify some ref pattern to watch.

Is that something one does already? Or does it need to code another kind of GitPoller ?

Thanks.

Dulla

Answer 1

This is finally implemented: https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/1010.

Should be part of the upcoming release of buildbot 0.8.9.

You can use branches=True then.

Sparid

Answer 2

Currently GitPoller can only watch a single branch at a time. However, you can have as many GitPollers as you want.

Inessa

The idea would be to have some kind of poller that can watch a variable number of git heads, so I cannot create one gitpoller per head. I will probably hack something around the current poller, I already need to make it support recursive submodules anyway. – Dulla

I'd also like to see some way to watch all branches. In our system we want to build several developer branches and they come and go so adding them manually is a real issue. – Meshed

Answer 3

This seems to have been fixed in the latest release of buildbot 8.8.8

https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/blob/master/master/buildbot/changes/gitpoller.py

Edit:

You can use branches=[ 'development', 'other' ] in place of branch='development'

Joshuajoshuah

Can you elaborate? No mention of "all branches" anywhere in the source code. – Cotinga

@g-allen-morris-iii: The op asked for a way to track all branches. However the change you mentioned only made it possible to track multiple branches. – Sparid