On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-Nov-08, Manni Wood wrote: > > > However, I see that this > > https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6437176629526528?logs=clone#L214 checks out a > > specific commit on a specific branch: > > > > "Checked out db131410131cb6a60f074213b0e7aaaa15d72f87 on cf/6175 branch." > > > > My clone of postgres (which is presumably shallow?) does not show that > > branch, not even with "git branch -r". > > Yeah, these branches used by CI are made up on the spot and aren't > propagated out of that repository. You can add a "remote" to your > existing clone, > > git remote add cfbot https://github.com/postgresql-cfbot/postgresql.git > > and then you can see the branches it creates and `git switch` to them. > Do mind that they are ephemeral, and for this thread they only contain > the patches you submitted yourself; really, this is only useful if > you're going to review other people's patches, and even then it might > still be better to use the patches from the mailing list (which is where > cfbot itself grabs them from anyway). > > You should definitely be reviewing other people's patches, though, not > just because it's valuable for the community as a whole to have an > additional pair of eyes on them, but also because they can teach you > many things. > > -- > Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — > https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ > "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me thy discordant > images > at such speed as to render linear thought impossible" (Calvin a la TV) > Thank you very much, Nishant, Jim, and Álvaro! I will start building with both make and Meson before submitting patches. Lesson learned. Also, Álvaro, yes, I do need to start reviewing patches this week. Thanks, all! -- -- Manni Wood EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
