Allow slave to get the source tree itself

[anonymous]

Currently the build master sends the source code to the slave as a tarball. It would be nice if the slave could be configured to get the source code itself instead - by doing a Subversion checkout for example.

I agree with the comments in ticket #19 that “just use subversion” should not be the default mode of operation but in some cases it is desirable. For example, in my case the build process depends on the subversion metadata being present because it freezes the revision number into the build product.

As another example, if this feature was present it would be a good workaround for ticket #40

[cmlenz]

This is going to be the major theme for 0.7.

[joel@…]

See #122 for a way to accomlish this, right now, in version 0.5.3 with a very small patch.