This change has now merged to central. If you see errors about unrecognized arguments when running |mach try|, you'll need to follow one of the options above.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:33 PM Andrew Halberstadt <a...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > On Friday July 10th we intend to change the default try selector from > "syntax" to "auto". This means running `mach try` (with no subcommand) will > invoke `mach try auto` rather than `mach try syntax`. If you don't use try > syntax, this change will not impact your workflow. > > If you do use try syntax (e.g, `mach try -b do ..`), then you have two > options: > > 1. Type `mach try syntax -b do ..` instead > 2. Specify a custom default by editing `~/.mozbuild/machrc` (create it > first if it doesn't exist) and adding: > ``` > [try] > default = syntax > ``` > > Try syntax users can make this change to their `machrc` right now for a > seamless transition when the change hits central. Please let me know if you > have questions or concerns. > > Cheers, > Andrew > > p.s For those who may be unaware, |mach try syntax| uses an outdated (and > poorly supported) method for selecting tasks on try and requires some > arcane knowledge. Whereas |mach try auto| is a new selector that aims to > make the decision on your behalf, requiring no special CI-related > knowledge, thus being a better default. > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
