Accept "try-jobs:" as alternative to "try-job:" #860

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1. RalfJung

   changed the title [-]Accept "try-jobs:" as alternatie to "try-job:"[/-] [+]Accept "try-jobs:" as alternative to "try-job:"[/+] on Sep 26, 2026
2. Kobzol commented on Sep 27, 2026

   

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   I only added try job= because people were writing it by accident instead of try jobs= 😆 I guess what you describe is the same situation though..
3. RalfJung commented on Sep 27, 2026

   

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   Oh so originally it was try-job and "bors try jobs"? Yeah well not surprising that people end up confused about the trailing s ;) Though I wonder, is the syntax the same? Does the PR description declaration support ","? It might be good if it would.
4. Kobzol commented on Sep 27, 2026

   

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   As far as I'm concerned, the two things aren't actually related that much.

   try-job: is a special marker syntax interpreted by Rust's CI, and existed before bors was even used as the merge bot for rust-lang/rust. This syntax does not accept commas, multiple markers have to be entered on separate lines.

   Originally, it was used like this:

   try-job: job-1
   try-job: job-2
   

   etc. But later we also added glob support, so you can now also say things like try-job: test-*, which makes using multiple markers a bit less common.

   @bors try jobs= is the syntax of a bors command that will just generate the try-job: markers for you. Most people use the bors command nowadays, without modifying the PR description (though it can be useful if you do a lot of try builds and don't want to type the jobs repeatedly).

   But those are two separate systems, where bors conforms to the syntax expected by the rust-lang/rust CI. Of course that doesn't mean that we can't change the CI markers to also accept try-jobs:.
5. RalfJung commented on Sep 27, 2026

   

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   I understand they are implemented entirely separately, but as a user they feel like two entry points to the same thing.
6. Kobzol commented on Sep 28, 2026

   

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   rust-lang/rust#163433 + #863 implements this.
7. Kobzol

   closed this as completedin #863on Sep 28, 2026
8. JonathanBrouwer

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   Rollup merge of rust-lang#163433 - Kobzol:try-jobs, r=jieyouxu

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   Rollup merge of rust-lang#163433 - Kobzol:try-jobs, r=jieyouxu

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   Unrolled build for #163433 in rollup 163449

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