[Cdash] What causes a new line to be made on the cdash summary page?

[Ben Ratzlaff]

After numerous test submissions here is what I have come up with:

The build tag is what determines if a submission overwrites another
previously made. For experimental builds, the build tag is the time that
ctest is started. For nightly, the build tag is constructed from the
CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME variable. The problem I was having in my scripts is
that I was EXEC_PROGRAM'ing the date command, and saving it as the nightly
start time.

so now all our submissions do what we want

Thanks for the great tool!
-Ben

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ben Ratzlaff <cdash at daishiva.com> wrote:

> We build our software from a number of different platforms. Each submission
> from the script run by cron shows up on its own line.
>
> When we come in at the start of the day, we find that something has broken
> so we run the same build script by hand. Sometimes the resulting submission
> will overwrite the previous nightly entry (resulting in no new rows on the
> dashboard) and sometimes a new line is made (resulting in many new rows if
> we dont get it right fairly quickly).
>
> My question is what causes this behavior? We would prefer to only see the
> most recent submission for a machine on the dashboard. Did I forget to set a
> nightly_tag variable?
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
>
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