Copy a folder from another repository and a specific branch to publish it

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Hello! It's my first time dealing with Bitbucket pipelines, so I may be very lost here. We have a repository the creates a directory. We would like to take this directory, from a specific branch, and add it to another repository, so it can be published as a Bitbucket public page. I de believe we want to do something like what follows, but I don't know where to start and I'm not sure this is the best approach to have it published. image: atlassian/default-image:3 pipelines: default: - step: script: - git clone --branch development --single-branch https://xxxxxxxxx@bitbucket.org//.git - 'delete all files but the directory' - 'copy contents from to root' - 'delete directory' We would basically clone the whole repositoy, specifing the branch. Because it seems we can't just get the directory. Does it make sense? Could you give some advice? Thanks a lot in advance!

Theodora Boudale · Answer

You are very welcome @mcamprecios!

This does require quite a few steps indeed. If it is too troublesome, you could also work from "workspace.bitbucket.io" repo as you mentioned in your previous reply. Each static website will generate content from the main branch, but you can also work out of a development branch on this repo, which you can merge to the main branch when it is ready.

If you need anything further, please don't hesitate to reach out!

mcamprecios · Answer

Massive thanks Theodora for your detailed comments.

This gives us a clear idea of how to do it. We didn't anticipate all these steps though, so we will give it a second thought.

And I managed to publish it via FTP and got an understanding of how the pipelines work now.

Thanks again!

Theodora Boudale · Answer

Hi @mcamprecios, Thank you for the details, this is more clear now. If you want the build to run on every commit to either master or development branch, you could define a different pipeline for each branch. The directory already exists on development branch, but you would need some extra steps to make it available in builds that run on master branch. I am sharing below an example bitbucket-pipelines.yml file: image: atlassian/default-image:3 pipelines: branches: master: - step: clone: depth: full script: - echo "Your build and test goes here..." - git checkout development development: - step: script: - echo "Your build and test goes here..." For builds that run on master, I have defined full-depth clone. This allows us to do git checkout development in the script, and when you checkout the development branch, the directory will be available in the directory of your pipelines build. For builds that run on development branch, the directory will be present anyway. Now, for the second part of your request, publishing the directory to the "workspace.bitbucket.io" repo, do you want to commit and push this directory to the source code of "workspace.bitbucket.io"? If so, this should be possible by including commands in both scripts that * clone the repository "workspace.bitbucket.io" in the directory of your pipelines build * copy the directory inside the clone of "workspace.bitbucket.io" * commit the changes in the clone of "workspace.bitbucket.io" and push to "workspace.bitbucket.io" Authentication needs to be set up, this could be either with the credentials of a Bitbucket account or with OAuth. Is this what you are looking for, and would you like me to share more details on how to set up authentication and what commands should be used in the scripts? Kind regards, Theodora