Paul Draper

The authoritative guide to stamping: ### Workspace status Bazel invokes the workspace status command for each build. This command can output variables to stdout in `KEY VALUE` format. ### Files...

> Does this mean that genrules using stamp always read both stable and volatile status, unconditionally? Correct. > If I want to write a helper rule to only read volatile...

And FYI, there is already a mature Node.js StatsD client (`node-statsd`).

The weird part is that a wrapper script would futz about with these signals, instead of just doing execv() and getting out of the way. > Node.js Oh, that's right....

To clarify @matts1 workaround: changing `--output_base` starts a new instance of Baze. So you have one Bazel server for each analysis configuration you wanted to keep.

Another data point: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/14294 The explanation makes complete sense, but the UI is intuitive in the extreme. I'd rather have a single number with no indication a proportion of progress...

> It has not been used at Google at all, it's an experimental option, it requires complex code to support and it's very probable that the same functionality will instead...

Are we talking about a **conceptual model**, a **language API**, or a **network protocol**? I find this project constantly confuses these. --- The answer is that it is a **conceptual...

@dsame's workaround is the best available currently, though it does have problems. Github hard-limits repos to 10GB of caches. So creating lots of caches can push other less-frequent-but-helpful caches to...

This directory expansion in args as well. Currently, if you want to use a directory, it has to come as the output of a rule.