Hi,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Antonio Cuni <anto.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> cool, thanks! I guess we have our own update_hg for historical reasons?
>
> IIRC, the hg support in buildbot had some strange features and it was just
> easier to write our own function instead of trying to convince buildbot to
> do what we meant. The situation might have changed since then, I don't know.

Yes, the main issue is that it insisted on doing fresh clones from
scratch, for example whenever we tested a different branch.  That's
not a problem for small projects, but for PyPy that's a "definitely
not".  That's why it's written as a series of shell commands that call
hg.  (And based on the results, I'm not sure I understand why buildbot
needs special "hg support" or "git support"; it's just more flexible
to call the shell commands you want.)


A bientôt,

Armin.
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