[MacPorts] #52769: Git + builbot: post-commit-hook selecting which buildbots should be used for CI

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#52769: Git + builbot: post-commit-hook selecting which buildbots should be used
for CI
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  Reporter:  mkae            |      Owner:  larryv
      Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
 Component:  server/hosting  |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:
      Port:                  |
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Comment (by larryv):

 Replying to [comment:9 neverpanic]:
 > How is modifying a magic file (which is also in the history of the
 > repository) different from putting the skip command in the commit
 > message?

 The difference is that one won’t see the magic file when one is looking
 through a list of commit messages.

 If you want to argue that it pollutes the list of changes…I can’t really
 deny it. Different side of the same coin, I guess.

 > Additionally, the magic file potentially increases the likelihood of
 > merge conflicts

 That’s true, but I’m assuming that skipping out on the buildbot run would
 be a rare thing. If people start doing it whenever they don’t feel like
 getting a build failure email (which I’m frankly afraid they will), I’d
 rather we not implement this at all and just manually disable the webhook
 on the rare occasions that we need to do a mass commit.

 > and puts a useless file into the repository.

 Got me there.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52769#comment:12>
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