[cmake-developers] [CMake 0013780]: Continuous ctest does not work if executed in individual steps

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13780 
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Reported By:                Frank U. May
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   13780
Category:                   CTest
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2012-12-07 17:27 EST
Last Modified:              2012-12-07 17:27 EST
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Summary:                    Continuous ctest does not work if executed in
individual steps
Description: 
When running CTest continuous in individual steps every step following
ContinuousUpdate is skipped.

Basically it is a nice feature that continuous tests don't run, if there are no
updates. However, it seems the current implementation breaks running continuous
tests in individual steps.

ContinuousUpdate works fine and reports the update. All following steps just
report the site and the build name and do nothing else.

Steps to Reproduce: 
1.) Set up a CTest environment updating from a repository (I am using Git).

2.) From workspace A push an update to the repository.

3.) From workspace B run:
   ctest -C Release -D ContinuousStart
   ctest -C Release -D ContinuousUpdate
   ctest -C Release -D ContinuousConfigure
   ctest -C Release -D ContinuousBuild
   ctest -C Release -D ContinuousSubmit

4.) Note that "ContinuousUpdate" properly reports the update, while the
following steps do nothing but report site and build name.

5.) Same issue, if you try:
   ctest -C Release --track Continuous -D Experimental[ALL_STEPS]

6.) Same issue if you try:
   ctest -C Release --track "Continuous Master" -D Continuous[ALL_STEPS]

7.) Same issue if you try:
   ctest -C Release --track "Continuous Master" -D Experimental[ALL_STEPS]

8.) Workaround: it works, if you try:
   ctest -C Release --track "Commit Master" -D Experimental[ALL_STEPS]



Additional Information: 
As I am running continuous tests from my Git repository hook, the latter is a
feasible workaround. But it is not nice at all; I would highly appreciate, if
this could be fixed. Or if someone could point out, where I am showing off to be
a dumb user. ;)

To me it seems that the information that there was indeed an update from the
repository gets lost between ContinuousUpdate and the following steps.

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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2012-12-07 17:27 Frank U. May   New Issue                                    
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