Use this tag for questions about Git, a free and open source distributed version control system, related to using Git for topics such as continuous delivery, monitoring, building SDLC infrastructure, etc.
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When to get rid of '-SNAPSHOT'
I'm working on a Git workflow (not git-flow) for a Java project that uses Maven and Artifactory for artifact storage. On develop and feature/* branches the version number contains '-SNAPSHOT'. It is ...
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Checkout code using jenkins pipeline and build that on any available nodes/agents
I am trying to checkout the code at a particular location ( ex. C:/scm/ ) on windows using jenkins pipeline (jenkinsfile) and want to execute the build from the checkout location ( C:/scm/ ) in any ...
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Git - Everyone Pushing to Same Branch in Different Files
Database team is implementing code changes, using Visual Studio SSDT database projects with Git source control. Everyone is pushing to main Release branch with code review (only 5 developers on the ...
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jenkins fatal: ambiguous argument, unknown revision or path not in the working tree
In jenkins pipeline, execute git command :
git log --format=%B --no-merges origin/master..origin/${currentBranch}
jenkins output error :
fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master..origin/XOPS-...
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Merging Git Database Commits from One Branch to Another without Cherrypicking
We have main two Git branches at our company:
During our Sprint,
Everyone has (local branches)
Release branch: Contains prepared/developed code, ready for testing, and
Master branch: Production- ...
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Git repo setup for multiple dot net project
I have a dot net solution containing a WPF application, MS-SQL database, and 2 dlls. Each is their own product in the sense that each can be shipped independently (dlls go to nuget to be consumed by ...
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Jenkins shows “No changes in any of the builds.”
Description
Jenkins job was made and configured to build release branch which already existed and had changes on it before first build. Job also monitors for push on BitBucket and starts building if ...
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Heroku Slack integration without using Github
Heroku has this great Slack chatbot (chatops) that lets you send messages if a deployment pipeline succeeded or failed. Unfortunately, while setting it up and logging in to Heroku, it asks for your ...
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What's a good devops approach for a single developer writing python web applications?
I'm guessing this question will seem incredibly trivial for some readers, but as someone who is a developer but with little experience of deploying apps in anything other than a manual, hit and hope ...
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Customizing deploy key and ssh wrapper path for git cloning through application_git cookbook
I am using Chef 12.0.3 for managing servers. Earlier I was using application cookbook for cloning repository. But now in higher version of application cookbook, this support is moved to new cookbook ...
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Pros and cons of different deploy strategies
I am not sure about the best way to deploy my program.
Lets assume i have two relevant branches release(tested and ready to deploy code) and master.
I have two options
1.Merge the release to master ...
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What do you need for a monorepo for a large codebase?
From certain size of the codebase, would you still have Git or are there more specialized solutions?
(Also to checkout just a part of the codebase)
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Deploying a SaaS solution which is custom for every customer
So we have 5 repositories (Individual web services ex. CMS/E-commerce and internal APIs) which are currently deployed as Docker containers.
What we plan to do is to use these services and make a ...
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Deb package versioning strategy with git and CI
We've decided to use debian packages for our internal software and I've been trying to wrap my head around the most efficient way to version our debian packages.
My goal is to have a package built ...
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Git Workflow with User Acceptance and Staging Environments
I'm trying to streamline/standardize a git workflow in my workplace. The current delopment process is as follows:
Pull 'development' branch
Write code and commit and push to 'development' branch
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How should we organize VSTS repositories?
We are a small company with the following systems:
External Web Site for pre-customers (already created in ASP.NET Framework),
External Mobile Application for customers (in progress in Flutter),
...
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Does Jenkins support cloning git submodules with “git@” (not “https”) URLs?
Had some issues with Jenkins when trying to checkout a project with Git nested submodules. It failed with a permission error when cloning the submodules:
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git ...
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Git Files Encryption for Business
I am using git and have the following problem:
In the company where I work you now want to protect the source code from theft.
So if for some reason a developer lets the source code of a project go ...
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Automating creation of new VM and pushing code to server
Automating creating of new VM and pushing code to server
Hi all,
I am writing a integration test for a client-server application. To simulate
the production server setup, and to update the code, I ...
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Does HA-git exist?
For the second time in three months, bitbucket is down
https://status.developer.atlassian.com/
Now I wonder whether HA-git is possible or we should switch. Thanks to this it will be hard to finish ...
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Coupling docker registry and source control
What are the best practices (if any) for coupling a docker image registry with a SCM service (such as bitbucket)?
I know a docker registry can live in artifactory, but how can I assure that the two ...
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What git command could be used to check when a remote branch was created?
Git is used at work. The number of branches is growing and growing. The aim is to remove branches that are older than X weeks.
Attempt 1
Running git branch -h will probably indicate what to run to ...
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Where to put ansible-vault password
We are planning to use ansible vault in our project to prevent leaking passwords or keys in git.
The idea is to put all our sensitive data into a plain file then encrypt this file with ansible-vault ...
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Git Repository Manager conditionally deny pull request
I am looking to migrate a handful of Subversion repositories to Git. Each of these repositories has a development and production branch. When ready to release, a developer will submit a pull request ...
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Test coverage of changed code in pull requests in git-tfs
We have a lot of legacy code that have poor test coverage. We wish that all new code that is checked in through pull requests has (close to) full test coverage. What is the best approach or tools to ...
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How to automatically publish git releases/comments to the site?
Sorry if title isn't correct. I'm trying to figure out what to search for on this matter.
I'm looking for the easiest way to automatically have my semantic versioning and commits visible on my site ...
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Continuous Integration and Isolated Feature Testing
I've been given the task at work to move everyone from using TFS Source Control to Git as the Development Team has been lead to believe that Git may well be the silver bullet that will fix alot of the ...
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How to set a Git repository when creating a job in Jenkins from a Groovy script?
I'm trying to setup a Jenkins server with Groovy script:
def repository = 'git@somerepo'
import hudson.tasks.Shell;
job = Jenkins.instance.createProject(FreeStyleProject, 'TestJob')
job....
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If a piece of work requires manual testing/QA, do we need to wait until opening PR?
First question here (i'm usually on StackOverflow)...not sure if the right place (if not, please vote to move where it belongs).
If we have a dev process using traditional GitFlow approach, what ...
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I need a good tool for running a series of Spring Boot based tools on Docker, where each needs a web page and a database connection
These are pretty much just tools our support and ops departments need to solve small tasks which crop up as a routine sideeffect of our main business operation. They might need to find all instances ...
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Validating certificates with get_url or yum on CentOS 7 using Ansible
I'm pretty new to Ansible, but it seemed a better tool than a bash script for installing programs from source on remote servers...
Starting from my working-but-fragile bash script, I made an Ansible ...
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Multiple git profiles especialy with Atom
I have configured Git to use a specific CA certificate, but how can opt-out for it other than using the switch -c http.sslVerify=false? (or enforce other certificate which seems better in terms of ...
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how to automatically create a subdomain for every pull request
Background
I got a team of untechnical QA's who have to do testing on iOS/android apps for every Pull Request (PR) that gets created by my backend team.
Question
This is what I want to do: ...
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How do I trigger scripts on a merge or when a branch is deleted?
I am using jenkins multibranch pipelines. If a branch is merged and deleted jenkins removes the branch from the pipeline as well.
This is great, but I want to run a command/script when a branch is ...
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SVN Externals in Git
I have a handful of projects that utilize SVN externals. How should these externals be handled in Git? For reference, these externals are shared by multiple repositories and are updated very ...
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Need a folder, always updated with the latest code from Git
I wonder if anyone knows of a tool or method that I can use to accomplish my goal of having a folder that always contains a copy of the latest code from my Git repository.
I need it to work ...
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Automatic Docker Hub builds from GitLAB, not github
As per title. I would like to configure automated builds on Docker Hub, as specified here.
My build context (the build context is a repository containing a Dockerfile) is hosted in GitLAB.
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How to handle updating binary files on a dev server with git
I have a dev site on a server which is synced with my git repo. The git repo does not track the media/ folder.
I want to update the content on the dev server to mirror the live server, so will copy ...
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What is the exact use of DETACHED HEAD state in Git?
when i enter into git checkout commitid(specific commit id), it going to detached mode where HEAD POINTER can't point recent commit.
What are the things we can do and what is the use of going detached ...
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How can I see HEAD temp pointer reference in Git?
Not the current working HEAD REFERENCE which points in our current branch.
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How to “docker-compose build” a service from code located in local git repository?
I have a git repository placed in local file system at /home/nou/code/lib.git
Also I have /home/nou/docker-compose.yaml that is used to deploy a service based on the code from the repo:
version: '2'
...
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Ansible - private git repositories - SSH agent forwarding vs copying private SSH key
I recently started playing around with Ansible and it seems very nice. I don't have much experience in DevOps stuff and never really had to handle any complex scenarios. I started creating my Ansible ...
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How to ensure that git subtrees are kept up to date?
Problem:
We use Data Transfer Objects (DTO) to ensure consistent interfaces across multiple services using TypeScript.
We're currently using a git subtree in order to make sure that each ...
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Automatic production deployment for a Node.js app on RHEL 7?
I am looking for some way to have a maximally simple(no Jenkins or anything like that) automatic production deployment for a Node.js application on a RHEL 7 system. The caveat is:
At the organization ...
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How to structure DevOps related code and configs in a code repository?
We've been growing as a company, our products are expanding and our DevOps related activities and efforts are growing as well - we've switched from Bamboo to a more flexible and configurable Jenkins, ...
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Where should I store my build configuration files?
At my work we use git for our source control, MSBuild for our builds, and Jenkins for our CI. Our git repo will have different branches for the cycle of the product (develop, QA, release).
My ...
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Setting up Jenkins and git-server on same server
I want to setup a Jenkins and git on the same server.
What I am trying to do:
I want Jenkins to be able deploy a folder to another server which runs IIS server (which is running .net).
I don't have ...
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How to create staging servers for multiple git branches?
I have to create a new staging process for our development and testing.
At any given time, there are only around 4 git branches actively being developed and tested. Within each git branch, there may ...
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Jenkins configuration to support multi-config multi-branch CI
Here are my requirements and I go back-and-forth on how to achieve them:
Must build Java spring-boot apps
Artifacts must be released to artifactory repository
Docker image to be built directly ...
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How to automate control of synchronization between Maven artefact version and Git tag?
Given the following situation:
in a POM file in the repo root (Atlassian BitBucket) I can define that this POM has e.g. the version 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
then I can tag the codebase whatever I want like v.0....
