On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Adam Petaccia adam@tpetaccia.com wrote:
What about checking for a string in the email like "patchwatchignore"; if for some reason the patch is known to cause a failure the e-mail might read like: patchwatchignore This depends on Harald's patch from yesterday... [patch]
If patchwatcher becomes a gatekeeper, we will add a bypass like that.
This also might be useful for patches which update comments or README files, etc.
It's a lot easier to let the hardware run the tests, and as long as the hardware is fast enough to not get backlogged, the payoff for using the bypass for doc-only changes is small.