demo of step.context bot_update issue

scripts/slave/recipes/blink_downstream.py

 # Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """
 This recipe can be used by components like v8 to verify blink tests with a
 low false positive rate. Similar to a trybot, this recipe compares test
 failures from a build with a current component revision with test failures
 from a build with a pinned component revision.
 
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   # Ensure we remember the chromium revision.
   api.gclient.c.got_revision_mapping['src'] = 'got_cr_revision'
 
   context = {}
   checkout_dir = api.chromium_tests.get_checkout_dir(bot_config)
   if checkout_dir:
     context['cwd'] = checkout_dir
 
   # Run all steps in the checkout dir (consistent with chromium_tests).
   with api.step.context(context):
-    # TODO(phajdan.jr): remove redundant **context below once we fix things
-    # to behave the same without it.
-    step_result = api.bot_update.ensure_checkout(force=True, **context)
+    step_result = api.bot_update.ensure_checkout(force=True)
 
     api.chromium.ensure_goma()
 
     api.chromium.c.project_generator.tool = 'mb'
     api.chromium.runhooks()
 
     api.chromium_tests.run_mb_and_compile(
         ['blink_tests'], [],
         name_suffix=' (with patch)',
     )
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   # and compare the lists of failing tests).
   yield (
     api.test('too_many_failures_for_retcode') +
     properties('client.v8.fyi', 'V8-Blink Linux 64') +
     api.override_step_data(with_patch,
                            canned_test(passing=False,
                                        num_additional_failures=125)) +
     api.override_step_data(without_patch,
                            canned_test(passing=True, minimal=True))
   )