Buildbot has problems with GitPoller

Question

I installed Buildbot and I am trying to run Gitpoller to check for changes in the code. I get the following error inside twistd.log on the host machine.

2012-08-22 17:10:50+1000 [-] http client disconnected before results were sent 2012-08-22 17:11:11+1000 [-] http client disconnected before results were sent 2012-08-22 17:11:21+1000 [-] gitpoller: polling git repo at <git repo censored> 2012-08-22 17:11:31+1000 [-] gitpoller: repo poll failed 2012-08-22 17:11:31+1000 [-] Unhandled Error Traceback (most recent call last): Failure: twisted.internet.utils._UnexpectedErrorOutput: got stderr: "fatal: ambiguous argument 'master..origin/master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\nUse '--' to separate paths from revisions\n" 2012-08-22 17:11:31+1000 [-] gitpoller: no changes, no catch_up 

I have SSH settings on the master and slave and both are copied to Github. Anyone have any idea what this might be?

I am using the latest version of Buildbot. 8.6

Thanks guys,

Answer 1

Well hello. If you are trying to poll the git repository using Buildbot 0.8.X using SSH, they have some problems with this. You should follow this topic on your TRAC [1].

Apparently, they are currently working on this.

[1] http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2343

Answer 2

The workflow that worked for me was to remove the gitpoller desktop (gitpoller-workdir) and then restart buildbot, as the message said in the link in the accepted answer.