Multi platform test on Travis-CI using Docker

Question

I am trying to write my .travis.yml to perform multi platform test on Travis-CI using Docker. The platforms I want to test on:

1. Ubuntu 14.04
2. Ubuntu 16.04
3. Debian 8
4. Debian 9

The whole concept in a nutshell is (for all 4 distros):

1. docker pull ubuntu:trusty
2. docker run ubuntu:trusty
3. Run make test inside the container (on my repo's clone)
4. Copy the result.xml back to Travis
5. Run scp result.xml ${SERVER_USER}@${SERVER_ADDR}:/home/${SERVER_USER}/result/

I know how to run scripts inside a docker container but how am I going to get the current branch inside the container and run make test on it make me go crazy.

Any help will be much appreciated!

Answer 1

This functionality is built straight into travis. Have a look at here.

Secondly you should not need to specify a branch as part of your make script as travis will triggered on a specific branch and therefore that revision would already be checked out.