NAME

Dist::Zilla::App::Command::chainsmoke - continuously smoke your dist on your CI server

SYNOPSIS

dzil chainsmoke [ --mvdt ] [ --silentci ] [ --remote_branch {remote}/{branch} ]

DESCRIPTION

This command smokes the distribution on TravisCI, by rebuilding the YML file, adding a commit, and pushing the branch. The branch is checked for dirty files and remote freshness prior to chain smoking, as a safeguard against Git mistakes. Unlike the plugin version, this doesn't add anything to the build directory.

Of course, you still need to turn on TravisCI and the remote still needs to be a GitHub repo for any of this to work.

OPTIONS

--mvdt

This enables the minimum version dependency testing feature from the plugin. It is HIGHLY recommended that you read up on this feature first, and if this is the first time doing these tests on this distro (which the option implies), you should start a new topic branch first, to prevent history pollution on your master/stable branch.

--silentci

This will turn off all notification (email or IRC) from Travis-CI for the test. Useful if you are running through MVDT and you don't want a lot of spam from it. You will, of course, need to watch for test results from Travis as they happen.

--remote_branch {remote/branch}

This allows you to specify a remote branch to push to. The default is the same branch that your currently in, via 'origin'.

As a safeguard, the default is changed to 'origin/chainsmoking/{local}' while on 'master' or 'stable', or 'origin/chainsmoking/mvdt' if you specify --mvdt without a --remote_branch option. But, you should really just create/switch the local branch yourself to keep from polluting your local repo's master history.

CHAIN SMOKING?

SineSwiper: rjbs: so, I think I'm going to make this Travis-CI plugin I'm making add in a command called "smokeci"
SineSwiper: any comments on implementation?
SineSwiper: the potential exists that other plugins could be made (which would be mutually exclusive, of course) that
            could interface with other CIs
PerlJam: SineSwiper: what's smokeci do?  Is that like continuous smoking?  I'd call it "burn" or something if so :)
SineSwiper: smoke testing on the CI
SineSwiper: PerlJam: heh, continuous smoking
SineSwiper: maybe I should call it chainsmoke
PerlJam: SineSwiper++  yes! :)
rjbs: haha
SineSwiper: okay, that will be the command name
SineSwiper: I hated the lack of punct between smoke and ci, anyway

AVAILABILITY

The project homepage is https://github.com/SineSwiper/Dist-Zilla-TravisCI/wiki.

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see https://metacpan.org/module/Dist::Zilla::TravisCI/.

AUTHOR

Brendan Byrd <bbyrd@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

• Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>

• Torsten Raudssus <torsten@raudss.us>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Brendan Byrd.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)