Announce: gitbuilder, an autobuilder for git-based projects

Hi all,

I recently made the first public release of gitbuilder, a set of relatively simple scripts for automatically building your favourite git-hosted project, optionally running unit tests, and reporting pass/fail results. In case of failures, it automatically uses "git rev-list --bisect" to try to track down the first commit that started failing. It's also smart about branches; it knows how to build each commit only once, no matter how many branches include it, thus greatly simplifying future bisections.

You can also get an RSS feed of the autobuilder results in case you want live updates as things happen.

To find the scripts, see here: http://github.com/apenwarr/gitbuilder/

And to see a sample autobuilder for git.git that I've been running at work, check this out: http://versabanq.com/demo/gitbuild/

(Note: the autobuilder you'll find here fails to build the html, todo, and man branches (unsurprisingly) and also had some trouble with the 1.5.4 series because I don't have msgfmt installed. I can fix these up on my end, but I suppose it's illustrative to look at the output as-is and see how the bisection gets displayed :))

I plan to leave this copy of the autobuilder up as a sample. If there are other interesting (more experimental?) git.git repositories I should fetch from and add to the autobuilder, please feel free to let me know.

I set up the same autobuilder tool for a couple of our projects at work, which have more interesting output since our developers are somewhat less careful to make sure the tests pass before committing. git.git is a bit boring to look at because Junio is apparently so good at his job.

Does anyone else find this useful? :)

Have fun,

Avery