RE: Ability to remember last known good build

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On March 11, 2016 1:08 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Pedroso, Osiris" <osiris.pedroso@intergraph.com> writes:
> 
> > I participate in an open source project that any pull merge is accepted,
no
> matter what.
> >
> > This makes for lots of broken builds, even though we do have Travis-CI
> enabled on the project, because people will merge a request before even
the
> build is complete.
> >
> > Therefore, I would like to remember the id of the commit of the last
> successful build. This would be updated by the Travis-CI script itself
upon a
> successful build.
> >
> > I imagine best option would be to merge master to a certain branch named
> "Last_known_Linux_build" or "Last_known_Windows_build" or even
> "Last_known_build_all_tests_passing".
> >
> > I am new to git, but some other experienced co-volunteers tell me that
it
> may not be possible due to authentication issues.
> >
> > Any better way of accomplishing this?
> 
> "test && git branch -f last-good"?

I think semantically a last-good tag might be another option, unless you are
applying build fixes to a last-good topic branch. You also have the option
of adding content to the tag describing the build reason, engine used, etc.
See git tag --help. I have used that in a Jenkins environment putting the
tag move in the step following a build (failure does not execute the step so
the last-good build tag stays where it is).

Cheers,
Randall

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