I want to be able to checkout all contents of the main branch and also contents of another branch to the same working directory in the TeamCity build agent.
For example
I would like scripts from:
example1\branch\scripts
example2\branch\sqlscripts
to be transferred to the agents working directory.
....\workingdirectory\scripts
....\workingdirectory\sqlscripts
At present I only have the main branch of the project doing this.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
After a little investigation, found out that the above problem can be solved by adding the branch location to the client mapping information tab under VCS tab.
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The PHP_CodeSniffer Github page has a very nice Code Consistency badge.
Clicking the badge takes you to a breakdown of the analysis for the ranking reported by the badge. You can also see the analysis of many packages.
I would like to include a Code Consistency badge in my own projects.
I can not find any details for how this is achieved. Perhaps it's not something that is available to any packages?
I add projects manually to that analysis site, but you can suggest a PHP project to add by opening an issue on the PHP_CodeSniffer Github project. It must be hosted on Github though, and be public.
The information I need is pretty basic. You can view the list of current projects, and their settings, here: https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/blob/gh-pages/analysis/_assets/repos.json
The settings are:
Name: The friendly name of your project
URL: The Github path to your project
Path: The path inside your project to check (most use either the root, or src if your root has a bunch of files and dirs that should not be checked)
Ignore: Any files or directories to ignore, using one of more regexs (if your git clone is going to have code from other projects in it)
Extensions: In case you use non-standard extensions, which ones should be checked.
If you have no idea what the settings should be, you can point me to a Github repo and I can figure it out, as I've done for the vast majority of projects in the report.
So, we are in this process of migrating XAML Builds to vNext (2015) Builds on TFS, and we are trying to "do things as clean as possible", since we had many, many customizations on the XAML builds that could be avoided and actually gave us problems along the way.
One major issue we are facing is with paths and "global files". Let me explain:
There are some files that, for commodity reasons, we have on a single place and every SLN file on that Collection refers them. Those files are such ones as Code Analysis RuleSets, Signing Files (SNK), etc. So the change is made in one place only and it affects every build.
Well, in XAML Builds we have a Build that runs with CI that downloads (Gets) those files, and since we hammered-in the same exact pathing for TFS and Machine (with a environment variable for the beginning of the path), the path is the same on the Developers and Build machines. However, this creates dependencies between builds and workspace issues.
My question here is, is there a configuration that I am missing that allows referring to files in other branches other than the build one? Since I’m trying to keep the build machines as “disposable” as possible, it’s running with an Agent Config Out of the Box: No custom paths, no hardwiring.
I already tried referring the files directly with their source control path, for example. The only options I’m seeing are either creating a PowerShell/CMD Script that downloads those files right into the same folder as the SLN or keeping it “as it is” and use relative paths putting a “Build” Build Step before the actual Build Step so it downloads the files to the server.
Isn’t there an “Elegant” way of doing this? Or is our methodology wrong from the get go?
You can add a Copy Files step to copy the files that the build needs:
I have an issue that I want to share with you and ask for advice.
Let's say I have a project in TFS with a source code folders and folder with deployment scripts. Folders structure:
-- TFS
---- PROJECT
--------DEPLOYMENTSCRIPTS
--------SOURCE
DeploymentScripts folder is a container for custom deployment scripts that are being executed by TFS Build process.
Source - is a folder with a source code where for each new release I create a label to use it later for deployment.
I have a build definition configured to takes files from both folders, so I expect that TFS will download the content of both folders each time I trigger a build:
And this perfectly works when TFS build takes the latest version: it takes everything, builds and deploys.
The issue appears once I configure what label to take:
TFS downloads only the content of Source folder ignoring DeploymentScripts. I suppose that this happens because we use labels only for Source folder and not in DeploymetScripts (the content of this folder is static, there are no any changes). I know, that if I make DeploymentScripts a sub-folder of Sources that will fix my issue, but I want to keep it separate (for example, if I later create a bunch of branch folders I don't want to copy deployment to each specific folder, I want to have as a one instance) and try to find a solution for this case.
Either apply your label at the root level, or start your build using a date or changeset number.
Another approach would be to use branching rather than labels, and set up your build to allow you to pass in the name of the branch to be built.
I no longer use labels, I can't think of a situation where they would be useful to me these days.
If I encountered a team doing this my first question would be why do they need to use Labels to accomplish whatever workflow they are after. This is an unusual practice, most teams just do a Get Latest, and use an appropriate branching strategy to achieve their desired workflow.
If you must use a Label one option is to include the DeploymentScripts in your Labels. You can do this without have to move the folder location in source control by editing your Label.
I am using Jenkins CI as the build server on a project that I am working on, I am also using Klocwork as a static analysis tool to identify deviations from our coding standards.
At present Jenkins has two builds (being performed in separate directories), a full build on a nightly basis that wipes out the workspace and performs a fresh checkout and full rebuild of everything.
In addition to the overnight build I also have an incremental build happening within 15 mins of a check in. Both builds are using the Klocwork analysis tool.
Klockwork works by displaying a list of potential issues which can then be fixed or chosen to be ignored if they are not applicable to the project, when issues are being ignored Klocwork uses the build file paths to remember where the issues that have been ignored reside. This means that when in Klocwork once I have ignored a warning in the full build and an incremental build is triggered the warning once again returns as the build path is different.
The most sensible solution I can see to this is for Jenkins to perform its full build on a nightly basis but for the incremental build to do an update in the full build location and to then do an incremental build - in the same way that an IDE on a PC functions.
The problem is that I have Jenkins running the full build and the incremental build as two separate jobs which causes them to check out into different locations and I cannot find a way of having the two jobs share a common directory.
Also I cannot find a way of having a single job that performs a nightly full checkout and rebuild, and an incremental build with an update on check in at the same time.
Is anyone familiar with a way of making Jenkins use a common source directory across multiple jobs?
Many thanks,
Pete.
Here's what I did.
Used one job to only check out source code.
In other jobs configuration settings', I set an environment variable that pointed to the workspace directory tree that contains the first job's source code (command line access to the Jenkins server is helpful here to figure out where it is, but not necessary). Then in my config scripting in Jenkins in the regular jobs, I 'cd' to that location and use the environment variable as path to all files so these other jobs would use the first job's checked out code.
Used locks, so regular jobs would not be running at same time as the check-out code job.
Since some results files (because of the tests being run) were generated and created in the source code tree because of the specifics of some of these jobs, in the config post-action script, I copied/moved the desired results back to the workspace of the job that should have them so I could process these results in the right job.
Worked for me.
You can easily make the two builds share the same build-area,
simply by extracting the files in both build-jobs to a shared location.
I strongly advise NOT to do this, as you can quickly get to a situation where
the nightly-build is cleaning the build-area while the incremental build is still running
(or that the incremental-build is checking-out sources while the nightly is still running).
Suggest you connect Klockwork only to one of the build-jobs (the nightly, probably)
so to avoid duplicate warnings.
I recently noticed I needed to reuse a build step in many projects. So I created a template where I only defined that build step, and had the projects that needed it associated with that template. That worked perfectly.
But then I realized that none of the affected projects were generating their artifacts, even though all of them were building successfully. When I went to look at the General Settings, the Artifact Paths box was grayed out and Team City told me that I could only change it inside the template!
I want my builds to have different artifact paths (some don't even generate artifacts at all), but I don't want to duplicate my build step. Is there some workaround for this?
Team City Version: 6.5.6 (build 18130)
This is how I workaround the issue:
Create a configuration parameter in the build parameters section of the template. I just call it Artifacts.
Then reference the property in the Artifacts Paths box in the template, e.g %Artifacts%
Then for each configuration which inherits the template you can override the artifacts configuration parameter with a path that is relevant.
HTH
This is an old question and apparently only affects users with TeamCity versions less than 8.1 (as pointed out in the comments to the accepted answer).
According to the offical documentation:
Since TeamCity 8.1, the following settings can now be overridden in a build configuration inherited from a template:
build number format
artifact paths
build options (hanging builds detection, status widget, number of simultaneously running builds)
VCS checkout mode
checkout directory
clean all files before build
show changes from snapshot dependencies
execution timeout
all common build failure conditions, including execution timeout