[libvirt] [jenkins-ci PATCH 1/8] lcitool: Add "-r REVISION" argument for build

[Erik Skultety]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:33:18AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 09:55 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > Initially, I wanted to point out that "revision" is probably not the best name
> [...]
>
> I was thinking yesterday that perhaps it would be better to
> use '-g GITREVISION' here instead, to leave '-r' available for
> future extensions, eg. when/if I get around to adding support
> for dependencies between projects that could be used to mean
> 'recursive', as in: build this one project and also all those
> that depend on it, the same way CentOS CI does it. Does that
> sound reasonable?

Yep, I've been playing with the same thought too, so '-g' sounds fine to me.

>
> [...]
> > >      def _action_build(self, hosts, projects, revision):
> > > +        if revision is None:
> > > +            raise Error("Missing git revision")
> >
> > see above...as I said, I still don't see a reason for requiring ^this, if there
> > truly is a compelling reason to keep it, then I'd suggest changing the default
> > remote name to "origin" from "upstream", because it feels more natural and
> > intuitive to me. Even though you document this in the README and I understand
> > the reasoning - you can name your origin whatever you want + you can clone your
> > fork and then add an upstream remote, but I wouldn't expect that to be very
> > common practice.
>
> Let's just use "default", that one doesn't have any charged
> meaning in the git world and it's pretty accurate, too.

Fair enough.

>
> I'll also make the whole thing optional. I still have a slightly
> uncomfortable feeling about it, though I can't quite put it to
> words... Plus unlike with libvirt going one way or another won't
> quite lock us into that decision forever, so I'm more willing to
> just try stuff ;)

Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>