Scallywag nobuild?

[Jon Turney]

On 15/09/2020 16:49, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Is there a way to tell scallywag to ignore a commit?  Maybe 
> "SCALLYWAG=nobuild"?

Yeah, this seems like a useful thing to have.

Unfortunately, we don't analyze the cygport in the git post-receive hook 
(since there are potential security concerns with doing that), so I've 
made it so the job gets started, but should fairly quickly discover it 
doesn't have anything to do if 'nobuild' is present.

> Here's my use case.  I've just made some maintenance updates to about 30 
> texlive-collection-*.cygport files.  I do this every few months to 
> reduce the annual work when there's a new TeX Live release.  I'd like to 
> push these changes to protect them from loss, but I don't want to tie up 
> the scallywag system unnecessarily.