Fix issue #10060 - add APPEND arg to ctest_start command.

If APPEND is given to ctest_start, it will read the tag from the current existing Testing/TAG file rather than creating a new one based on the current time stamp. This allows a developer to run several dashboard scripts in a row, all of which will share the same tag/stamp/buildid when they finally get submitted to CDash. Now you can split the running of build phases and test phases for the same dashboard row into multiple scripts.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/CTest/cmCTestStartCommand.cxx b/Source/CTest/cmCTestStartCommand.cxx
index 606fbbe..228a173 100644
--- a/Source/CTest/cmCTestStartCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/CTest/cmCTestStartCommand.cxx
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 #include "cmCTestVC.h"
 #include "cmGeneratedFileStream.h"
 
+cmCTestStartCommand::cmCTestStartCommand()
+{
+  this->CreateNewTag = true;
+}
+
 bool cmCTestStartCommand
 ::InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args, cmExecutionStatus &)
 {
@@ -44,6 +49,15 @@ bool cmCTestStartCommand
       }
     }
 
+  if (cnt < args.size())
+    {
+    if (args[cnt] == "APPEND")
+      {
+      cnt ++;
+      this->CreateNewTag = false;
+      }
+    }
+
   if ( cnt < args.size() )
     {
     src_dir = args[cnt].c_str();