Is it possible to have a short comment/description for the job/workflow other than the name of the same.
sometimes it is difficult to identify the purpose or what it does just with the name when we have multiple jobs/workflows
You can put comments in the yaml file or put a readme.md in the workflow folder...
# this is a comment in yaml
There is no description yaml element to store stuff in.
If it is a run workflow, you can just echo something to the console.
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I would like to know if it is possible to give inputs to a concourse pipeline from the UI.
I know we can add input details to a git repo and read from the repo, but for every tiny input I need to do a code commit.
For this scenario is Jenkins better than concourse?
I tried searching in the internet to find if it is possible to give inputs to the concourse pipeline, but I did not find a solution.
Manual inputs via UI are not a thing in Concourse.
FWIW: When I need frequent inputs and want to avoid git commits for that purpose, I use an s3 resource versioned file in my pipeline as an input, for example with a send_input.sh script like this:
#!/bin/bash
echo "$1" > /tmp/input.txt
aws s3 cp /tmp/input.txt s3://my-bucket/my-concourse-resource-file.txt
and then
./send_input.sh "this is my input"
then the pipeline picks it up and uses it in my workflow.
Is there any way (for on premise github) to :
For N number of files in the Pull Request.
Look at the history of those files.
And add any/all github users (on the history) .. to the code reviewers list of users?
I have searched around.
I found "in general" items like this:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-automate-code-reviews-on-github-41be46250712/
But cannot find anything in regards to the specific "workflow" I describe above.
We can get the list of changed files to the text file from PR. Then we can run the git command below to get the list of users included in last version's blame. For each file we get from file list, run the blame command. This might be also simple script.
Generate txt file from list of files of PR.
Traverse all filenames through txt file. (python, bash etc.)
Run blame command and store in a list.
Add reviewers to the PR from that list manually or some JS script for it.
For github spesific: list-pull-requests-files
The blame command is something like :
git blame filename --porcelain | grep "^author " | sort -u
As a note, if there are users who are not available in github anymore. Extra step can be added after we get usernames to check whether they exist or not. (It looks achievable through github API)
Is there an option to handle the next situation:
I have a pipeline and Copy Files task implemented in it, it is used to upload some static html file from git to blob. Everything works perfect. But sometimes I need this file to be changed in the blob storage (using hosted application tools). So, the question is: can I "detect" if my git file is older than target blob file and ignore this file for the copy task to leave it untouched. My initial idea was to use Azure file copy and use an "Optional Arguments" textbox. However, I couldn't find required option in the documentation. Does it allow such things? Or should this case be handled some other way?
I think you're looking for the isSourceNewer value for the --overwrite option.
--overwrite string Overwrite the conflicting files and blobs at the destination if this flag is set to true. (default true) Possible values include true, false, prompt, and ifSourceNewer.
More info: azcopy copy - Options
Agree with ickvdbosch. The isSourceNewer value for the --overwrite option could meet your requirements.
error: couldn't parse "ifSourceNewer" into a "OverwriteOption"
Based on my test, I could reproduce this issue in Azure file copy task.
It seems that the isSourceNewer value couldn't be set to Overwrite option in Azure File copy task.
Workaround: you could use PowerShell task to run the azcopy script to upload the files with --overwrite=ifSourceNewer
For example:
azcopy copy "filepath" "BlobURLwithSASToken" --overwrite=ifSourceNewer --recursive
For more detailed info, you could refer to this doc.
For the issue about the Azure File copy task, I suggest that you could submit a feedback ticket in the following link: Report task issues.
I like to execute a command line programm as a DAM workflow. I tried to implement the ImageMagic example from here: Best Practices for Configuring ImageMagick:
I addded a new Workflow Model,
added "command line" from the "DAM Workflow" list.
In the Argument tab set Mime type to "image/jpeg" (even tried wihtout Mime type)
and in Commands: "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.7-Q16\magick.exe" convert ${file} -flip ${file}-flipped.jpg (instead of magick convet ... because in another discussion using an absolute path instead of global name helped people Re: CommmandLineProcess : ImageMagick)
I then added a luncher. And uploaded an Image to the DAM.
In the workflow > instances overview, i see that the workflow was started, it's running and the command line job is set to active.
Unfortunantly this state is never chnaged and no new asset is generated via imageMagic.
I even tried replacing the command with something simple like "ren C:\test\foo.txt bar.txt" which renames a local file. The chnage never happend either.
My question is what am i doing wrong, and how can i debug / find the command outputs? in \crx-quickstart\logs i couldn't find any logs regarding CommandLineProcess.
Thanx
If I understand well, git plugin exposes committer and author names and emails to environmental variables GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL based on the global configuration of git. Is there a way to get that info using Github-plugin? Does Github-plugin exposes payload info, getting from github-webhook, to environmental variables or to something else?
In reality these variables are available just when you overwrite the Author Name and Author Email on the Advanced features of the SCM configuration.
"Additional Behaviours" -> "Custom user name/email address"
This is described on the source code:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/tree/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git
Solution: In order to retrieve the author name and email I suggest scripting this:
GIT_NAME=$(git --no-pager show -s --format='%an' $GIT_COMMIT)
GIT_EMAIL=$(git --no-pager show -s --format='%ae' $GIT_COMMIT)
Being $GIT_COMMIT the SHA1 commit id.
You can use this workaround in your scripted pipeline file:
env.GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL = sh(
script: "git --no-pager show -s --format='%ae'",
returnStdout: true
).trim()
You can try for below command, it worked for me:
git log -n 1 --pretty=format:'%ae'
You need check who is contributing this variables, github plugin only triggers git build that runs Git SCM (that is git-plugin). This variables probably injected by git-plugin.