In a matrix build, the following warning is printed, if you don't opt for "Always Force Sync", or "Clean Workspace":
"This is a matrix build; It is HIGHLY recommended that you enable the 'Always Force Sync' or 'Clean Workspace' options. Failing to do so will likely result in child builds not being synced properly." I'm just wondering why this is? AFAICS, multiple *separate* clients are used - for the top-level "build" and all of the child builds which are spawned off that. I would have thought that each client would properly take care of its own state. Why would they not be synced properly? For example, for a matrix build called "Blah", with a configuration axis called "TYPE", with values "Release" and "Debug", there would be a top-level client "Blah", and child clients "Blah-TYPE-Release" and "Blah-TYPE-Debug". All the logged Perforce commands for these clients *look* reasonable, AFAICS, and not likely to cause syncing issues between clients and the server. So what is the issue here? Why are child builds likely not to be synced properly? Is it something to do with the child builds possibly being done on nodes on different machines, for different runs? If so, wouldn't this same issue affect normal non-matrix builds too? Thanks, -- Jonathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
