Task

Maintain support for git in Buildbot.

Maintainers

• James Tomson (wimba)
• Amber Yust (ayust)

Open defects

#2473

using the branch option to choose a tag fails if using a git version older than 1.7.10

#2485

The New Git Source Step Does Not Handle Changes From GerritChangeSource Correctly

#978

Changes should have multiple users

Open tasks/enhancements

#716

Add parent-rev to change and use this in console

#998

better handling for tags in changesources

#1728

Git: add support for setting additional information via Git notes

#1773

deprecate 'default branch'

#1861

github hook should optionally ignore distinct=false

#1917

improvements and docs to 'buildbot try' with DVCS

#2155

Change git submodule handling in incremental builds

#2366

Connect with github's commit status API