fate: support testing of release branches

Adding 'branch=release/2.3' to the fate config file will check the
release/2.3 branch instead of master. If no branch is specified it will
use 'master' so that existing config are still valid.

(cherry picked from commit 42eb9154a8)

Conflicts:

	tests/fate.sh

tests/fate.sh

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ test -n "$slot"    || die "slot not specified"
 test -n "$repo"    || die "repo not specified"
 test -d "$samples" || die "samples location not specified"
 
+: ${branch:=master}
+
 lock(){
     lock=$1/fate.lock
     (set -C; exec >$lock) 2>/dev/null || return
@@ -28,14 +30,14 @@ lock(){
 checkout(){
     case "$repo" in
         file:*|/*) src="${repo#file:}"      ;;
-        git:*)     git clone --quiet "$repo" "$src" ;;
+        git:*)     git clone --quiet --branch "$branch" "$repo" "$src" ;;
     esac
 }
 
 update()(
     cd ${src} || return
     case "$repo" in
-        git:*) git fetch --force && git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD ;;
+        git:*) git fetch --force && git reset --hard "origin/$branch" ;;
     esac
 )
 
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ clean(){
 report(){
     date=$(date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
     echo "fate:0:${date}:${slot}:${version}:$1:$2:${comment}" >report
+#    echo "fate:1:${date}:${slot}:${version}:$1:$2:${branch}:${comment}" >report
     cat ${build}/config.fate >>report
     cat ${build}/tests/data/fate/*.rep >>report || for i in ${build}/tests/data/fate/*.rep ; do cat "$i" >>report ; done
     test -n "$fate_recv" && $tar report *.log | gzip | $fate_recv