Testing patches before push to trunk

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2022, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Indu,
> 
> On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 00:05 -0700, Indu Bhagat via Binutils wrote:
> > Is there a way I can test the patch series on a wider set of 
> > platforms/environments and weed out the issues before the patch set
> > is integrated ?
> 
> binutils has a try bot on https://builder.sourceware.org/
> 
> If you push a try- branch to your users branch the buildbot will pick
> it up and run a build on a bunch of different architectures.
> 
> https://builder.sourceware.org/buildbot/#/builders?tags=binutils-try
> 
> The remote branch should be called users/username/try-something.
> So assuming your local branch with the patches to test is called
> "frob", you can push it to a users try- branch like:
> 
> - git push origin frob:users/ibhagat/try-frob
> 
> Then wait for the emails to come in or watch the logs at the above URL.
> 
> Note that not all arches are green at the moment, so you need to check
> if a failure is because of your new code or was already existing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 

Cool!  Thanks for doing this.

brgds, H-P