Hi David,
Please use the following issue to discuss on that:
https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/issues/3998

Pierre

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:10 PM David Alves <davidral...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>   I've seen sporadic build issues when pushing a new rev of a
>   GitHub pull request
>   because buildbot pulls the merge ref and the merge ref is often
>   not immediately updated.
>   This causes the build triggered by the updated rev to actually
>   use the merge ref
>   corresponding to the previous rev, making the results of the
>   build unreliable without
>   re-checking that the correct code was actually tested.
>   When contacted about this Github claimed merge refs are an
>   undocumented feature and
>   that they don't advise to use them.
>   The alternative seems to be building from the head ref instead
>   of the merge ref.
>   IMO this makes sense. Would you be open to patch to fix this?
>
> Best
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